Proofreading Proficiency Test – Romanian

Guidelines for completing the Proofreading Proficiency Test

The test consists of a translated text in which various errors have been inserted, alongside its original
English text, an error report which you will need to fill in according to the guidelines below, and the
definitions and examples of the several errors inserted.

Guidelines on how to fill in the error report:

1. In the first column, fill out the line number where you spotted the mistake.

2. In the 2nd column, Error Type, choose from the drop-down menu the corresponding error type.
Categorize the errors carefully based on the definition and examples in the Definition and
Examples on the last page of this document.

3. In the 3rd column, Error, write down the actual error detected.

4. In the 4th column, Correction, insert the correction

5. In the 5th column, Notes, add notes/comments for your correction if you deem necessary

6. Save the test in the following format: PPT_x_Your name_Your language.doc

If your name is Sally Smith and you are completing test 2 in Dutch your file name would be:
PPT_2_Sally Smith_Dutch.doc

Once again, thank you for your time in completing the test. If you have any questions, please do not
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 Original Text
As she did in her 2004 collection ―Don’t Let
Me Be Lonely,‖ Rankine again works with a
form she calls ―an American Lyric.‖ The
writing zigs and zags effortlessly between
prose poems, images and essays. This is the
poet as conceptual artist, in full mastery of her
craft. And while the themes of this book could
have been mined from any point in America’s
history, Rankine sets the whole collection
resolutely in the present. Contemporary
content and contemporary form mirror each
other.
There are also several evocative internal
monologues that offer a kind of breathing
space between the texts grounded in fact.
―You sit down, you sigh. You stand up, you
sigh. The sighing is a worrying exhale of an
ache. You wouldn’t call it an illness; still it is
not the iteration of a free being. What else to
liken yourself to but an animal, the ruminant
kind?‖ At best these monologues capture the
liminal quality of being black and American
— what Du Bois called double consciousness
— though on occasion they lapse into slack
tautology: ―Do feelings lose their feeling if
they speak to a lack of feeling?‖
Rankine has for the most part abandoned line
breaks; she is like a painter abandoning
representation in order to focus on canvas,
color and light. In her world, enjambment, that
poetic technique of allowing a sentence to run
into the next line of poetry, often to create
layered meanings, takes place between poems
rather than between lines.
Translation
1. Asemeni tehnicii abordată în colecţia din 2004
2. „Don’t Let Me Be Lonely‖, Rankine foloseşte din
3. nou un stil pe care îl numeşte „poem liric
4. american‖. Stilul lui oscilează cu uşurinţă între
5. poeme în proză, imagini şi eseuri. Aceasta e poeta
6. ca artist conceptual, la apogeul măiestriei ei
7. artistice. Şi, deşi temele acestei cărţi ar fi putut
8. porni din orice perioadă a istoriei americane,
9. Rankine nu îşi ancorează puternic colecţia în
10. prezent. Conţinutul şi forma contemporane sunt
11. puse în oglindă
12.
13.
14. Există şi câteva monloguri interne evocatoare,
15. care oferă o gură de aer proaspăt între textele
16. descriptive. Te aşezi, you oftezi. Te ridici, oftezi.
17. Oftarea este descărcarea îngrijorătoare a unei
18. durere. Nu ai putea s-o denumeşti boală; şi, totuşi,
19. nu este exprimarea unui suflet liber. Cu ce altceva
20. ai putea să te semeni decât cu animalul din clasa
21. celor gânditoare?‖ În cel mai bun caz, aceste
22. monologuri surprind condiţia liminală – ceea ce
23. Du Bois a numit dubla conştiinţă – deşi, pe
24. alocuri, acestea alunecă spre o uşoară tautologie:
25. „Emoţia îşi pierde din trăire dacă descrie o lipsă a
26. trăirii?‖
27.
28.
29. Rankine a abandonat în mare parte liniile de
30. dialog. E asemeni unui pictor care-şi abandonează
31. reprezentarea pentru a se concentra asupra pânzei,
32. culorii şi luminii. În lumea ei, ingambamentul,
33. tehnica poetică prin care se permite unei
34. propoziţii continuarea în versul următor, adesea
35. folosită pentru a crea sensuri multiple, are loc
36. între texte mai mult decât între rânduri.
37.
Rankine creates an intentionally disorienting
experience, one that mirrors the experience of
racial micro-aggressions her subjects
encounter. Race is both referenced and
purposely effaced within the text.
―The real estate woman, who didn’t fathom
she could have made an appointment to show
her house to you, spends much of the walk-
through telling your friend, repeatedly, how
comfortable she feels around her. Neither you
nor your friend bothers to ask who is making
her feel uncomfortable.‖
As Rankine pointedly writes, ―Just getting
along shouldn’t be an ambition.‖ ―Citizen‖
throws a Molotov cocktail at the notion that a
reduction of injustice is the same as freedom.
38. Rankne creează o experienţă ce dezorientează
39. intenţionat, oglinzi cu experienţa micilor
40. agresiuni rasiale pe care subiecţii ei o trăiesc. în
41. text, se face referire la rasă şi, în acelaşi timp,
42. aceasta e mascată.
43.
44. „Agenta imobiliară, care n-a înţeles că ar fi putut
45. stabili o întâlnnire pentru a-ţi arăta casa, îşi ocupă
46. mare parte din timpul în care te învaţă spunându-i
47. prietenei tale, în mod repetat, cât de confortabil se
48. simte în preajma ei. Nici tu, nici prietena ta nu vă
49. deranjaţi să o spuneţi cine o face să nu se simtă în
50. largul ei?‖
51.
52. Aşa cum subliniază Rankine: „Să ne înţelegeam
53. bine n-ar trebui să fie o ambiţie‖. „Cetăţeanul‖
54. aruncă un cocktail Molotov asupra conceptului că
55. o reducere a nedreptăţii e totuna cu libertatea.
56.
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 Error Report #2

Line # Error Type Error Correction Notes

aunque el motel
aunque estos osos no no se parezca The verb “to bear”
12 Mistranslation - Major se parecen al hotel mistranslated as the
a los de El resplandor Overlook de El noun
resplandor
 Definition and Examples

Type of Error Definition Example

Capitalization Incorrect use of upper/lower case I don’t want to go. > i don’t want to go.
Lives change in five years. > Lives
Grammar/Syntax Grammatical or syntactical mistake
changes in five years.
Inconsistent
Different translations used for the same term
translation
Spanish text used in Brazilian
Incorrect/different language is used or left in
Incorrect language Portuguese file or English text left in
a file
Thai file
Major mistranslation that affects the meaning Sarah killed her husband. > Sarah did not
Mistranslation - Major
of the sentence and the overall plot kill her husband.
I cooked pot roast for tonight. > I cooked
minestrone for tonight. IMPORTANT: It
Minor mistranslation that may affect the
is not an error if the translator decided
Mistranslation - Minor meaning of the sentence but not the overall
to leave out unimportant information,
plot
repeated or filler words or condensed
the translation.
She was our mole in the company. >
Literal translation - Major literal translation that affects the
'Mole' translated as an animal instead of
Major meaning of the sentence and the overall plot.
'infiltrator'.
Hard word breaks no bones. > Word-to-
Minor literal translation that does not convey
Literal translation - word translation that would not convey
the correct intention of the speaker, joke or
Minor the meaning 'Words do not physically
sarcasm but not the overall plot.
damage'.
Punctuation Error - Missing, unnecessary or incorrect You're not going to the prom? > You're
Major punctuation that alters the overall meaning not going to the prom.
Missing, unnecessary or incorrect
Punctuation Error - punctuation that may affect viewer’s reading We got invited to Michelle's party! > We
Minor experience but does not alter the overall got invited to Michelle's party.
meaning
Severe/important missing translation that He just won the lottery yesterday and
Severe missing
affect the meaning of the sentence and the was robbed an hour later. > He just won
translation
overall plot the lottery yesterday.
Typos or spelling mistakes that are detectable
Typo/Spelling Error -
with spell-check or mistakes in proper nouns, James Cameron > James Camerrron
Major
character or place names or in Main Title.
Typos or spelling mistakes that are not
detectable with spell-check but only by read-
Typo/Spelling Error - He pulled the cork from a bottle. > He
through. Or mistakes that are not in proper
Minor pulled the dork from a bottle.
nouns, character or place names or in Main
Title.
A musician was playing his friend's
Nonfluent/awkward Translation that sounds awkward or contains
trumpet. > A musician was blowing his
translation a poor choice of word
friend's trumpet.