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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
Local time: 12:36
Mitglied (2007)
Englisch > Portugiesisch
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Monolingual target-only read for natural flow 08:32

My "last" step is reading aloud the printed copy, then I may have few or many edits to make. After that, I hit "send'...
 
WolfgangS
WolfgangS
Frankreich
Local time: 13:36
Englisch > Deutsch
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Yes, but... 09:19

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:

My "last" step is reading aloud the printed copy, then I may have few or many edits to make. After that, I hit "send'...


185 pages of highly technical stuff?
I run XBench twice with spellchecker and all.
Reread the whole file segment by segment again and that's it.
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 12:36
Mitglied (2007)
Englisch > Portugiesisch
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I don’t do highly technical stuff! 11:33

WolfgangS wrote:

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:

My "last" step is reading aloud the printed copy, then I may have few or many edits to make. After that, I hit "send'...


185 pages of highly technical stuff?
I run XBench twice with spellchecker and all.
Reread the whole file segment by segment again and that's it.


I did translate some technical stuff at the very beginning of my career, but soon discovered that it is not my cup of tea...
 


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