An ongoing desk column on EN≠TC and filing parallel misses. Written for other translation suppliers, and for clients who need language that holds under pressure.
Side-by-side reads of Chinese originals and English parallels. When the metric, the diligence step, or the collocation slips, the English-only reader gets a different document.
A note is filed with a date and the name of the source. This page is the index. It lists a note after that read is published. Four notes are on file.
The newest note on file.
“the Stock Exchange” is defined as HKEX, then used in an A-share plan where the Chinese says 證券交易所. A repayment limb becomes a pledge, and Wu Chenggang is also spelled Wu Chengang. Chinese prevails.
Read the noteNewest first, including the latest. The last row stays empty until the desk files another note.
Not yet filed
Next notes from the desk
No further note is published. The next note is dated and added here when the desk writes it.
Trade in Words is sibling desk writing on the Greenspan Put: a literal rendering that turned a market metaphor into a product label.