The impact of poorly written source text on translation
The impact of poorly written source text on translation Have you ever tried to translate a source text that has been poorly written that you wanted to bang your head on the wall because it was driving you crazy when you were trying to produce a good enough translation from it and felt like you were going to end up in a mental institution because by the end of it you were so emotionally unstable? You aren’t alone! Joking aside, the question I ask myself when I encounter such a text is how an earth did this person get to write…