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Translations & Services Glossary

This translations glossary offers definitions of some of the technical phraseology used in Total Language Solutions translations sector.

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Editorial / proof reading

Translation to EU standard requires that all translations be carried out by competent translators with appropriate expertise in the languages and subject matter, and that these translations be thoroughly reviewed by a second linguist of similar ability. This is the standard that Total Language Solutions works to. All translations are edited and proofread according to the above standard. Our standard translation prices include this standard of translation checking and proofreading. Elsewhere, editing can mean simply reading through the translation, and correcting errors of spelling, grammar and format, improving the style etc without referring to the original text or checking the accuracy of the translation. Similarly proofreading can simply mean pre-print checks for typographical or formatting errors.

EU standard on translation services in Europe adopted in the UK

The EU, in conjunction with professional language associations in Europe has set a trading standard for translation services to ensure transparency such that "translation services" means "translation plus review by a second translator".

Extensible Markup Language

The (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. In other words XML is a way of describing data and an XML file can contain the data too, as in a database. It is a simplified subset of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of data across different systems, particularly systems connected via the Internet. Languages based on XML (for example, Geography Markup Language (GML), RDF/XML, RSS, Atom, MathML, XHTML, SVG, and MusicXML) are defined in a formal way, allowing programs to modify and validate documents in these languages without prior knowledge of their form.

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