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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