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The most dangerous translation is not always the obviously bad one.

When a translation is full of grammatical errors, awkward sentences and strange terminology, the problem is easy to see. The more difficult problem is the translation that looks perfectly good. It reads smoothly, sounds professional; nothing immediately appears wrong. And yet, somewhere beneath that polished surface, a distinction may have disappeared.

A legal obligation may have been subtly altered. A medical term may have acquired the wrong meaning. A technical expression may have been interpreted outside its proper context.

The danger lies precisely in the fact that the error is difficult to see. A translation can therefore be linguistically convincing and functionally wrong.

That is why professional translation is not simply about producing fluent sentences. It is about preserving meaning, context and purpose. When the document carries consequences, “sounds right” is not the same thing as “is right.”