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Elizabeth22 · 05-26-2008, 10:16 AM

Hi!

I am new member of the forum who studies translation and interpreting. At the moment, I'm doing a contrastive work between the English and Spanish medical language and I was wondering if any of you know about a text or a place in the web in which I can find a source medical text in English and its corresponding "bad" translation into Spanish. I really need an example of a really bad medical translation. I would be grateful if anyone could help me...

Thanks a lot!

Liz

SandraT · 05-26-2008, 11:10 AM

Hello Liz and welcome to the forum!
I do not know of any particular site with a bad medical translation but if you find none, you can try using any on-line translating software to translate any medical record and use the translation as an example. It will be a bad translation all right.
Of course, if you must offer a reference to the site, then, I suggest you keep looking, or perhaps somebody will come up with something.

SandraT · 05-26-2008, 11:26 AM

Hi again,
I ran into this site which seems to be Eng/Spanish, so I suggest you take a look and evaluate if there are bad translations. I already noticed a a sentence (not medical-related) that was not correctly translated, so perhaps you will get lucky here.

Quote:

Estamos poniendo al d�a nuestra estructura del sitio. Ser�s vuelto a dirigir a nuestro nuevo.

http://www.shands.org/health/Spanish...dia/200000.htm

05-26-2008, 10:16 AM	#1
Elizabeth22 New Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	"Bad" medical translation? Hi! I am new member of the forum who studies translation and interpreting. At the moment, I'm doing a contrastive work between the English and Spanish medical language and I was wondering if any of you know about a text or a place in the web in which I can find a source medical text in English and its corresponding "bad" translation into Spanish. I really need an example of a really bad medical translation. I would be grateful if anyone could help me... Thanks a lot! Liz

05-26-2008, 11:10 AM	#2
SandraT Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Havana,Cuba Posts: 911 Rep Power: 808	Hello Liz and welcome to the forum! I do not know of any particular site with a bad medical translation but if you find none, you can try using any on-line translating software to translate any medical record and use the translation as an example. It will be a bad translation all right. Of course, if you must offer a reference to the site, then, I suggest you keep looking, or perhaps somebody will come up with something. __________________ _____________________________ [Have a nice day!!! ♥ Sandra T ♥

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