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Poll: What causes the most friction when following client-provided style guides?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
Local time: 15:59
सदस्य (2007)
English to Portuguese
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N/A 09:24

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…

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CafeTran Trainer
CafeTran Trainer
Netherlands
सदस्य (2006)
German to Dutch
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Glossaries 09:32

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]

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Karletto666
Karletto666
Slovenia
Local time: 16:59
English to Slovenian
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strict rules 09:42

I had a client that gave me 10 pages of rules. O_O
 
M. Anna Kańduła
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United Kingdom
Local time: 15:59
English to Polish
Mistakes in style guides 12:33

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

Josephine Cassar
 


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