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Translation, Editing/proofreading, Software localization, Training
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Translation Volume: 25000 words Languages: French to English
I am translating material for several books writtten by the Société Baudelaire's President, to be published serially from today onwards. Translating literary sources of a high standard is demanding, since one is dealing with something living, rather like kneading dough for breadmaking, when one feels the dough rising as one handles it. It calls on all the resources of one's mother tongue, unlike technical translation, for which the word choice is comparatively limited.
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Sample translations submitted: 1
French to English: Administrative law in Europe
Source text - French A/ L’affirmation traditionnelle d’une autorité relative
Sans discuter de la pertinence de la distinction traditionnelle entre systèmes de common law et systèmes romano germaniques, on doit isoler les fondements juridictionnels spécifiques de la Grande-Bretagne ou de l’Irlande. Ils retiennent l’autorité du précédent, l’effet relatif des jugements entre parties au procès est consacré, mais une décision de la cour peut être citée comme précédent dans un procès principal engageant des questions similaires de fait ou de droit. En outre, le principe du “ stare decisis ”, respect des décisions des tribunaux supérieurs, s’applique à toutes les décisions de la cour d’appel, de la chambre des Lords et aux décisions de la divisional court de la cour administrative. Les autres pays se conforment en général à l'autorité res judicata. Des cas particuliers existent néanmoins, tel Malte, qui tout en respectant l'autorité de la chose jugée, considère que la décision peut être utilisée comme précédent dans d'autres procès où apparaissent des questions similaires. Ces précédents n'ont cependant qu'une valeur persuasive. En général, on peut bien sûr mettre à part les affaires de série, qui imposent qu'une solution soit répétée.
L’autorité de la chose jugée est appréciée généralement comme ayant un effet relatif, en revanche les décisions d’annulation des actes administratifs ont un effet erga omnes, comme en Belgique. En outre, peut exister une possibilité d’extension de l’autorité de chose jugée à des tiers pour des cas strictement identiques. D’autres Etats, comme la Lettonie, soulignent que l’interprétation d’une norme juridique dans un jugement de cassation est obligatoire pour la juridiction qui statue à nouveau.
Translation - English A/ The traditional affirmation of relative authority
Without discussing the relevance of the traditional distinction between Common-Law legal systems and Romano-Germanic systems, it is necessary to pinpoint the special judicial foundations in Great Britain or Ireland. Those countries' legal systems refer to the authority of precedent; the relative effect of judgements between parties to the action is firmly established, but a court ruling may be cited as a precedent in a main action involving similar points of fact or law. In addition, the principle of stare decisis, of abiding by the rulings of the higher courts, applies to all decisions of the Court of Appeal, the House of Lords and the rulings of the administrative appeals Divisional Court. As a rule, the other countries conform to the authority of res judicata. Special cases nevertheless exist, such as Malta which, while deferring to the authority of res judicata, considers the decision to be usable as a precedent in other cases in which similar issues arise. Even so, these precedents are only of persuasive value. In general, obviously, class actions can be set apart, since they require a solution to be repeated.
The authority of res judicata is usually construed as having a relative effect; on the other hand, rulings annulling administrative acts have an erga omnes effect, as in Belgium. Furthermore, scope may exist for extending res judicata authority to third parties in strictly identical cases. Other States, such as Latvia, emphasise that the interpretation of a legal standard in a judgement on cassation [ruling solely on points of law] is binding upon the jurisdiction making a further ruling.
French to English (Royal Holloway, U. of London, verified) English Middle (ca.1100-1500) to English (Royal Holloway London) French Old (842-ca.1400) to English (Royal Holloway London)
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Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, The Baudelaire Society and Limouse Foundation Limited, Director, SFT
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Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Apache Open Office, Clipmate (Thornsoft), Dell scanning and fax software, Dragon Naturally Speaking dictation software, MS Office 2010: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Multiterm 2022, Nuance Power PDF, PerfectIt 2 single-language editing, Trados Studio 2022, WordPerfect 2021 suite, XBench 2.9 QA software, Powerpoint, Trados Studio, Wordbee
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Translation, revision, language and terminology lead roles, drafting, summarising, lexicography...CAT system: Trados and MultiTerm;
Dragon (DNS 13) voice-recognition software - experienced in dictation; OCR scanning platform and PDF conversion software.
Main areas of knowledge: business/finance, banking, accounts, insurance, marketing, a variety of industrial technical fields, arts.
Services provided: Translation, revision, summarising (between languages), editing (French and English documents).
IT training: University of Hull, 1987 - 1988
Currently working, among others, for: major French banks, international law firms and blue-chip companies.
Subjects dealt-with include Annual Financial Statements, Insurance, Taxation, French and European Law, Intellectual Property and Real Estate.
Technical translation subject areas: I.T., Civil Aviation, Radar, Water Treatment, Quality Assurance, etc.
Other areas of knowledge: International Law, National Accounts, Taxation, Economics, Econometrics, Economic Development (OECD, Club du Sahel), Statistics.
A former pupil of the Lycée Français de Londres (Lycée Charles de Gaulle, London).
From a merchant banking traineeship, I became acquainted with accountancy, balance-sheet analysis and corporate finance. In a firm of money brokers, I scanned the financial press, tracked and and charted economic indicators.
A former staff translator at the OECD, where on-the-job training at the hands of some of the foremost revisers in the business gave me degree-equivalent training in translation, with specialisation in economics and statistics.
Over the years, I have compiled my own terminological resources, collected from live work examples. The current estimated volume exceeds 50,000 terms.
I am a trustee and director of a registered arts charity, the Baudelaire Society and Limouse Foundation Limited, the UK arm of the Société Baudelaire.
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK), August 2012.
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