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Documentation and Translation:
concepts and competences
Documentation (fromMerriam Webster)
The act or an instance of furnishing or
authenticating with documents.
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The provision of footnotes,
appendices,[pictures] or addenda referring to
or containing documentary evidence.
Documentation (fromDRAE)
Accin y efecto de documentar.
2. Documento o conjunto de documentos,
preferentemente de carcter oficial, que
sirven para la identificacin personal o para
documentar o acreditar algo.
Connected to Information science
(fromMerriamWebster)
The collection, classification,
storage, retrieval, and
dissemination of recorded
knowledge treated both as a pure
and as an applied science
Translation
(fromMerriamWebster)
An act, process, or instance of
translating as:
a rendering fromone language into
another; also : the product of such a
rendering.
a change to a different substance,
form, or appearance
Translation
(DRAE)
1. Accin y efecto de traducir.
2. Obra del traductor.
3. Interpretacin que se da a un
texto.
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Best translation strategy ?
Documentation need ?
Se mora de hambre.
He was so hungry he could eat a horse.
Llamar al pan pan y al vino vino.
To call a spade a spade?
To call a spade a land removing
implement.
Not to mince words.
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Documentation need ?
A bird in hand is worth two in the
bush.
Es mejor conformarse con una mitad
segura que arriesgarse por el doble.
Ms vale pjaro en mano
Dont cross your bridges till you come
to them.
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Best translation strategy ?
Documentation need ?
Nadie es profeta en su tierra.
"el mismo Jess dio prueba de que el profeta
en su tierra no tiene honra"

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Ipse enimIesus tesimoniumperhibuit, quia
propheta in sua patria honorem non habet.
For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath
no honour in his own country.
Best translation strategy ?
Documentation need ?
The Community of Madrid, the capital city of
Spain, invites all users to take a historical trip
around the most emblematic stations of the
Madrid subway network.
La Comunidad de Madrid invita a todos los
usuarios a realizar un viaje a la historia de las
estaciones ms emblemticas de su trazado.
Some basic translation strategies
Condensing
Rephrasing
Adding
Omitting
Restructuring
Translators competences
Knowledge of language
Communicative competence: register
Cognitive skills: ability to understand
Sociocultural competence: knowledge of field
Ability to handle documentary resources
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Communicative competence
Translating instructions:
Essential measures should be undertaken at
the earliest opportunity.
You should do whatever you have to as soon
as you can.
One should undertake any necessary
measures at the earliest opportunity
Cognitive skills
Packet switching is the now-dominant
communications paradigm, in which packets are
individually routed between nodes over data links
which might be shared by many other nodes.
Six Sigma (6 ) is a relatively new concept as
compared to TQM. Both Six Sigma and TQM have
many similarities and are compatible in varied
business environments, including manufacturing
and service industries.
Sociocultural competence
Knolwdge of field:
Scientific: Humanities, Economy, Experimental,
Legal, etc.)
Technical matters: Engineering, Construction,
Communication, etc.
Activities: Sports, tourism, Commerce, etc..
Ability to handle documentary
resources
Being able to identify the difficulties and thus
knowing what to look for exactly.
Having access to information resources.
Having enough time to find, evaluate and
retrieve the information resources.
Previous knowledge of information resources
and research systems.
Example: toyota
Toyota decided to lean off
fat or huge safety stocks
fromits system. This whole
new concept was later known
as Just-in-Time or JIT
system, an alternative name
of lean Production System.
Suitable resources: Books