Needed: Professional Translators

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To the Editor:

Re “On Offer in China: ‘Fried Swarm’ and Other Tasty Translations” (news article, May 31):

One more reminder that translation is a profession, and as such the task should be left to professionals.

All too often, the task of translation is entrusted to anyone who claims “to know” a foreign language, especially if he or she doesn’t charge for the service.

I am of course aware that this will rob the world of a scarce source of innocent merriment.

BRIGITTE ANDREASSIER-PEARL

New York

The writer is a former chief interpreter at the United Nations.