Section 2 of 5
The second pair of eyes
What the standard actually requires. The standard specifies qualifications, a second qualified person revising the whole text, and records — because the failure it exists to prevent is physical.
The standard specifies qualifications, a second qualified person revising the whole text, and records — because the failure it exists to prevent is physical. What ISO 17100 asks for
- What ISO 17100 asks for
The standard specifies qualifications, a second qualified person revising the whole text, and records — because the failure it exists to prevent is physical.
- Somebody else reads it first
Revision by a second translator is not proofreading; it is a comparison against the source, line by line.
- A step in the wrong order
The instructive failures are the ones where a translated procedure inverted two steps, which is why this trade has a standard at all.
- What machine output changes
Post-editing is a different job from translating, with a different failure mode: the errors are fluent.