Post #1648898
2026-04-21 10:13 UTC
I have received news from the publisher of my 2024 book on Textbook English (J. Benjamins) that a Chinese university press has expressed interest in publishing a Chinese translation. I think this is very exciting, but also quite scary because I will have absolutely no way of assessing the quality of the translation. The publishers are currently negotiating and will inform me of the terms later on, but is there anything I should watch out for?
https://benjamins.com/catalog/scl.116
#linguistics
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@Tho99@mendeddrum.org 2026-04-22 06:37
@ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org we used to check the quality of translations by having the translation re-translated to the original language by a different translator. That could perhaps be DeepL? We: at my old job, ‘twas professional training material