Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Spanish Translation Boston



Measurement Conversions

One of the most difficult aspects of technical translation is measurement conversions. When translating from US English into any other language and vise versa, measurement units have to be converted into English system or metric. That's when things get interesting.

Let's take 10 feet for example. It's 3.04800 meters. This number is pretty long especially if there is limited space and pages could not be added to the translation. So the translator has to round it up. Depending on what you are measuring, the measurement can be rounded up to the whole number or one decimal if we are talking about how far approximately a heater has to be from a wall. Or conversion has to be very precise if the text is talking about turbine mounting or laser engineering.

Imagine if the text is to be translated into 5 or more languages where all the measurements have to match. Although translators are instructed about the right conversions and rounding, checking and matching measurements across all languages is also a job of a Quality Assurance team. It is a group of people with engineering and linguistics degrees who have a great eye to catch errors and great attention to details.

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