Work with María Luciana Rolón!

Wait, wait… Does the text not get proofread unless the proofreading fee is added?

Oh, it gets proofread. The proofreading rate is there for those times when only proofreading or light editing is requested, or to account for the final bit in final translation — the sort that doesn’t get submitted to a second professional for editing after translation.

OK… But what is this about “kitties”?

Computer-Assisted Translation tools are usually called CAT tools. So, it’s a silly pun to introduce the tools I normally work with. They help me keep track of tricky terminology, previously translated content in the same project, that sort of thing. Also, thanks to those tools, I can offer weighted rates based on repetitions and partial matches.

Cool, cool. And what are those “partial matches”?

Partial matches are strings from a new text that share some amount of seemingly identical text with a previous version or batch. It doesn’t always mean the text in them is actually the same. It also doesn’t mean that having changed it a bit doesn’t require retranslation. And even those that should only require some editing can still take much longer to adapt compared to if you simply retranslated them from scratch. So, depending on just how much they match those previous strings, we can calculate whether they count as new translations, heavy/light editing or simple proofreading.