TYPES OF TECHNICAL TRANSLATION
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51699/mjssh.v1i2.14Keywords:
technical writing, purpose, to communicate, explain, implications, cost, interaction, experiment, translator, expensiveAbstract
Although technical writing and technical translation may be similar in the content they work with, they are different as translators translate what the technical writers produce. The purpose of technical writing is to explain how to do something. Technical translating is similar; however it attempts to communicate how someone else explains how something is done. “The technical translator, like the technical writer, wants to produce a document that is clear and easy to understand”. Translators may also consider controlled language and whether it applies in their target language culture.