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| Spanish to English Technical Translation In man’s quest to control nature, translators are increasingly required to translate tools, methods, and applied materials involved in this ever-changing and challenging field. |
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01-07-2008, 08:34 PM
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Just need this translated
Direccion de Obras Sanitarias
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01-15-2008, 07:44 AM
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Hi Izzy, is it a national department, or something like that? Sometimes you don't translate names...
A suggestion is to check in the page whether they have an English version.
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01-15-2008, 03:24 PM
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I agree!!
With Veronica
Direccion de Obras Sanitarias must be an institution, and generally you don´t translate it, you can provide an explanation in English between brackets but depending on the context... it might be even clear in the context...  |
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04-18-2008, 05:41 PM
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Depending on the country it may change, but in Venezuela is de water company (Supply water) but also manage the wasted water of the city |
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Depending on the country it might change, but in Venezuela this is the water department or company in charge of drinking water and wasted water. Mandataria sounds like a gobernment person: The major, the gobernor or the president. best regards. |
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05-07-2008, 01:16 PM
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Hi izzy, newbie here but if that is in spanish, they are asking for the "health department address" hope this helps.
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Re: Just need this translated
As others have rightly said, this is country-dependent. I would translate it as "Water and Sanitary Sewer Services Board Management."
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03-22-2009, 09:56 AM
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Re: Just need this translated
given that within english speaking countries, the states/shires/councils/counties all have different names for the same thing, in general i never bother to search for an exact match from the clients locality, I just translate the function as literally as possible, but use an organization name common in the locality for the function... thus depending on the place i would just put Sanitary Works Board.... if a big doc at the first occurance I always parenthathize the native acronym eg. (Direccion de Obras Sanitarias - DOS) and use that from therein...
i think eds right with board... this must be a few levels down within any health department Damien |
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03-22-2009, 10:09 AM
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Re: Just need this translated
oh... and if you want to use the Direccion more literally, sorry iggy but address is way off track, probably best with Directorate or for higher/highest levels General Directorate.
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