De cómo el «collar de helvecio» se convirtió en la «corbata del suizo»: las trampas del texto científico y la figura del traductor

Abstract

Scientific translation is generally linked to a series of problems
derived from the complexity and context intricacy of the highly specific
texts and terminology involved, many times obscure and even inscrutable.
Granting this as a fact, this article intends to prove how, in many occasions,
those alleged difficulties of scientific documents and their translation
are mainly due to significant gaps in the education and professional
training of the translator. In some cases, they could even arise from other factors related to social issues and to the intrinsic framework of the Sciences.
These factors, as we’ll explain, have nothing to do with the potential
text difficulties to be understood and translated.