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Real-Time Transcription - Project Contributions
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Controversies (split section into part about transcribing dialects?)
The usage of transcription in the context of linguistic discussions has been controversial. Typically, two kinds of linguistic records are considered to be scientifically relevant. First, linguistic records of general acoustic features, and secondly, records that only focuses on the distinctive phonemes of a language. While transcriptions are not entirely illegitimate, transcriptions without enough detailed commentary regarding any linguistic features used has a great chance of the content being misinterpreted. An example that highlights this complication with transcription is displaying dialect in writing. The fundamental problem with this situation is that the transcribed product is not simply a spoken language in its written form, but a language the transcriber is responsible for writing down and a language that has been transcribed by someone other than the speaker, no matter the level of understanding the transcriber has for the spoken language. It is important to note that any transcription is an interpretation of the speech no matter how detailed it is, and will be selective in what it includes or leave out. Because of this reason, it is important to strategically choose the form of transcription in order to properly represent the spoken language in a written form. Nagisa Ohno (talk) 05:13, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Translation Issues
When it comes to translating, it can be difficult to find the correct words to translate the same information given because not all words that are translated can have the same meaning. There are many cultures around the world that the legal translation has to be exact. It is important that Legal Translators be able to interpret one word from a given language to another while still being able to maintain the same impact and meaning of the legal word. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Xmejia/sandbox? Xiomara Mejia] 16:17, 5 April 2020 (UTC) ~

As well as understanding and precisely translating the legal rights and duties established in the translated text, legal translators must also bear in mind the legal system of the source text (ST) and the legal system of the target text (TT) which may differ greatly from each other This is a challenge because it requires that the translator have substantial legal knowledge as well as the multiple legal systems that can exist in one language. Examples of different legal systems include Anglo-American common law, Islamic law, or customary tribal law. Mollygriffith (talk) 02:47, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Bilingual legal dictionaries tend to largely be a source of reference for interpretation, rather than a source of literal equivalent translations of legal terminology. Translating legal text from one language to another becomes a challenge for legal experts because there is a level of freedom to translating texts that retain meaning and not necessarily maintaining equivalent semantic structure. There is also a debate between experts to either restrict the legal language to the target text for professional use or to broaden legal language for the use and comprehension of the public, specifically in societies with bilingual law system. -BradyDR (talk) 05:45, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Defining Legal Translation
Legal translation is the translation of language used in legal settings and for legal purposes. This definition comes from the functionality of the texts to be translated. It is implied that legal translation is simply the translation of legal texts, but due to the many possibilities of what constitutes as a legal text, it cannot only hold that definition. Legal translation may also imply that it is a specific type of translation only used in law, which is not always the case. Furthermore, it is important to note that there are various texts that exist and could be considered legal, using legal language, or be used as evidence thus needing a legal translation. Awrights711 (talk) 03:38, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

DRAFT HERE

What distinguishes legal translation from other types of technical translations is the adjective legal; legal may imply the translation of legal texts. Going into detail, this simple assumption could be challenged, simply by questioning the criteria that identify a legal text.

Languages for Special Purposes : An International Handbook, edited by Christer Laurén, et al., De Gruyter, Inc., 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rutgers-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5156401.

Created from rutgers-ebooks on 2020-04-05 20:06:30.


 * will be coming back to this to paraphrase a definition for legal translation and to properly cite the material. will also be reading my text further to properly find a definition for legal translation.

Awrights711 (talk) 03:00, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Revising the article
"Different approaches to translation should not be confused with different approaches to translation theory. The former are the standards used by translators in their trade while the latter are just different paradigms used in developing translation theory."

^This sentence from the article is ambiguous, vague, and arguably irrelevant. I would like to revise it in the following way: take out the word "paradigms" and replace it with ... Santino1965