Lost in Translation

So, I had to do a bit of translating. Started them a couple of days back but only managed to finalise them after sahur this morning.

It was a pamphlet for an upcoming patient support group I was involved in. The original was in English, and I had to turn it into Malay. The initial draft was far too technical for everybody, but not as bad as if you cut and pasted the whole thing into Google Translator.

I then realized that it was more difficult than I imagined it would be to have translation which actually both made sense and non-technical. Now, I appreciated why the translator were paid hell of a lot of money …..