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Do you feel insulted by style guides?
Автор темы: Tom in London
Kay Denney
Kay Denney  Identity Verified
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Local time: 00:12
французский => английский
Why an insult? Sep 27, 2013

When I worked in an agency, I actually wrote up a style guide. Only about a page long, and only to ensure that everybody wrote dates, times, sums of money etc. the same way.
For example, the date had to be 24 January 2014, not 24th, in case the client then shifted their meeting to 22 January, to avoid it becoming 22th. I've seen it happen many times!

I only ever sent it to translators I considered good enough to want to send a fair amount of work to, so it was to be perceived
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When I worked in an agency, I actually wrote up a style guide. Only about a page long, and only to ensure that everybody wrote dates, times, sums of money etc. the same way.
For example, the date had to be 24 January 2014, not 24th, in case the client then shifted their meeting to 22 January, to avoid it becoming 22th. I've seen it happen many times!

I only ever sent it to translators I considered good enough to want to send a fair amount of work to, so it was to be perceived as a compliment, not an insult!

There was just one translator whose work was so good I decided not to send it though, otherwise there was absolutely nothing that needed changing and I would fall asleep proofreading.
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Diana Obermeyer
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Local time: 23:12
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немецкий => английский
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I don't get the problem here Sep 27, 2013

Most of the posts here focus on style guides that try to be more than a guide, examples of clients going overboard or attempt micro-management. Of course, an ill-written style guide can be unworkable and can be insulted. But that is not the fact that a style guide has been employed, but the fact that it hasn't been written well or that the author has exceeded the scope of a style guide.

In general, I find style guides rather useful.
I have even developed some together with sel
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Most of the posts here focus on style guides that try to be more than a guide, examples of clients going overboard or attempt micro-management. Of course, an ill-written style guide can be unworkable and can be insulted. But that is not the fact that a style guide has been employed, but the fact that it hasn't been written well or that the author has exceeded the scope of a style guide.

In general, I find style guides rather useful.
I have even developed some together with select clients. I work with quite a few consultancies, where I get work send through from different departments directly, but get paid centrally. The individual recipients may have personal preferences, which are overruled by the style guide in place, which the management and me have invested time in. At the time it was a little irritating having to explain every word choice, changing some, finding alternatives for others... But now it is set in stone and I don't need to explain myself stylistically nor give grammar lessons to every department. In the long-term, this saves a lot of hassle.
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