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Poll: What causes the most friction when following client-provided style guides?
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Aug 23

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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Португалия
Local time: 21:30
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английский => португальский
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N/A Aug 23

In over 40 years only one client has provided me with a style guide! I used to translate a lot for the European Institutions (when they paid a fair rate) and “The Interinstitutional Style Guide” contains all the stylistic rules and conventions which must be used…

CafeTran Trainer
 
CafeTran Trainer
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Нидерланды
Член ProZ.com c 2006
немецкий => голландский
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Glossaries Aug 23

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:

In over 40 years only one client has provided me with a style guide! I used to translate a lot for the European Institutions (when they paid a fair rate) and “The Interinstitutional Style Guide” contains all the stylistic rules and conventions which must be used…


A little off-topic, but in the same 40+ years, I’ve never received a decent glossary from a client either. So I’ve always had to create my own on the fly.


[Edited at 2026-08-23 09:33 GMT]

Josephine Cassar
Alexandra Speirs
Aisha Maniar
Laura Kingdon
 
Gregor Trebec
Gregor Trebec
Словения
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английский => словенский
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strict rules Aug 23

I had a client that gave me 10 pages of rules. O_O

Michael Newton
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M. Anna Kańduła
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Великобритания
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английский => польский
Mistakes in style guides Aug 23

I had a few clients who insisted on something that was blatantly incorrect in the target language.

Josephine Cassar
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Michael Newton
Lancashireman
Maria Laura Curzi
Laura Kingdon
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