Translation Question - CORRECTION!

Paul B. Gallagher paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM
Sun Nov 14 01:58:26 UTC 2004


Elena Gapova wrote:

> But if a person does not know what the question in the "fifth item" was
> about, any of the suggested variants, though correct, would be of little
> help. If there is no some standard translation, I would go for "ethnic
> origin".

Quite right. Translation is not a mechanical task, it must be done
intelligently.

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Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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