Perspectives on Translation

Multiple Select

Why do we need to consider user's perspective? (You may choose more than one answers

• Users are the source of our income.

• We have to know what the user wants to produce a good translation.

• Users are the consumers of our product.

• Approaches to translation are developed based on user's perspective.

Multiple Choice

Why does reliability matter to users?

• They want the best result for the money they pay.

• They use the translation as the basis for their action.

• They need translation to understand the document

Multiple Choice

There are 6 types of text reliability.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Poll

Are you a translator?

• I was born for this.

• Not yet, but I'll learn to be one.

• Maybe. We'll know by the end of the semester.

• I only took this class because I have spare credit.