Comments on: Blame the assistant http://scottwallick.com/blog/2008/06/blame-the-assistant/ An editor making more mistakes than corrections Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:58:08 +0000 By: Martin Weiss http://scottwallick.com/blog/2008/06/blame-the-assistant/#comment-374 Martin Weiss Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:07:55 +0000 http://scottwallick.com/?p=81#comment-374 Also happens here in Norway; the translators are underpaid, inexperienced youngsters who have to work under immense time pressure - and often they don't even get to see the picture. One of my favourite mistakes was when they translated "There is no one left" to something that would again be translated to "There is no one to your left"... Also happens here in Norway; the translators are underpaid, inexperienced youngsters who have to work under immense time pressure - and often they don’t even get to see the picture.

One of my favourite mistakes was when they translated “There is no one left” to something that would again be translated to “There is no one to your left”…

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