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TABLE 5-10: QUALITY GATES FOR BILINGUAL COMMUNICATION

Gate The verification question

Understanding the Were abbreviations and ambiguous sentences identified before
original translating?

Consistency of
Was the approved equivalent used for each term?
terminology

Equivalence of
Do the obligation, the figures, the dates, and the names match?
meaning

Style Is the tone appropriate to the audience and the channel?

Visual check Do brackets, links, numbers, and tables display correctly?

Approval Did a bilingual reviewer check it where the impact is high?

✕ Common misconception Correction

Attach the glossary, define the audience
Asking for a “professional translation” and and the tone, ask for a table of ambiguous

then approving the text because it reads phrases, then check the figures, the
naturally. names, and the obligations before

approval.

? Question to consider: does the second version do the same work?
Does the second version perform the same institutional action as the first, or does it
merely read more elegantly?

● Remember: Section summary
• Key idea: Institutional translation transfers a purpose and an obligation, not only words.
• Practical decision: Fix the approved terminology, the names, the figures, and the
degree of obligation before judging the style.

• Mistake to avoid: Accepting a more elegant version that quietly changes what the
reader is required to do.

5.9 From Notes and Tables to Insight and Decision Support
◆ Key idea: a decision does not begin with a chart.
It begins with a clear question and a correct definition of the data: the unit of

measurement, the period, the source, and what the numbers do not cover.

AI can turn unstructured material into a structure that helps analysis, but a decision does

not begin with a chart or a summary. It begins with a clear question and a correct definition

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