CT Domain-Specific Terminology Banks 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: When a transliterator uses a legal terminology bank and finds multiple approved variants for one term, what is the best practice?
- Choose the shortest variant to save space
- Select the variant specified by the client's style guide or jurisdiction (Correct answer)
- Always pick the oldest recorded variant
- Use whichever appears first alphabetically
Correct answer: Select the variant specified by the client's style guide or jurisdiction
When multiple approved variants exist, the client's style guide or applicable jurisdiction standards determine which variant to use for consistency.
Question 2: The medical term 'laparoscopy' must be transliterated into Korean (Hangul). The transliterator should primarily rely on:
- The Korean translation of the procedure's meaning
- The English pronunciation of the term mapped to Hangul phonotactics (Correct answer)
- The Greek root words transliterated separately
- The French medical spelling of the term
Correct answer: The English pronunciation of the term mapped to Hangul phonotactics
When transliterating medical terms into Hangul, the English pronunciation serves as the phonetic base and is mapped to Hangul following Korean phonotactic rules.
Question 3: A terminology bank entry marked 'deprecated' means the transliterator should:
- Use that entry as the primary reference
- Avoid using it and prefer the current approved form (Correct answer)
- Treat it as an acceptable alternative
- Report an error to the terminology manager
Correct answer: Avoid using it and prefer the current approved form
A deprecated entry is outdated and should be replaced with the current approved transliteration form in all new work.
Question 4: In financial transliteration, which term from an English banking terminology bank would require special care due to its acronym form?
- Loan
- SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) (Correct answer)
- Interest
- Deposit
Correct answer: SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication)
Acronyms like SWIFT present a unique challenge because transliterators must decide whether to render the acronym phonetically or expand it and transliterate the full name.
Question 5: A CT exam candidate is asked to transliterate the legal term 'voir dire' from a French-origin US legal terminology bank. The phonetic base should be:
- Modern French pronunciation
- The anglicized pronunciation used in US courts (Correct answer)
- Medieval French pronunciation
- Latin pronunciation rules
Correct answer: The anglicized pronunciation used in US courts
Terms borrowed into US legal usage are typically transliterated using their anglicized pronunciation, which reflects actual court usage.
Question 6: Which of the following is a key advantage of using a domain-specific terminology bank during a transliteration project?
- It eliminates the need for proofreading
- It ensures terminological consistency across a document or project (Correct answer)
- It automatically generates translations of complex terms
- It replaces the need for a style guide
Correct answer: It ensures terminological consistency across a document or project
Terminology banks ensure that the same term is always rendered the same way, maintaining consistency across large documents or multi-translator projects.
Question 7: When a new technical term does not yet exist in a terminology bank, the transliterator's best course of action is to:
- Invent a novel transliteration and submit it without review
- Follow established phonetic rules for the domain, then flag it for terminology review (Correct answer)
- Leave the term in its source script
- Skip the term and note it as unresolvable
Correct answer: Follow established phonetic rules for the domain, then flag it for terminology review
The transliterator applies domain phonetic conventions provisionally and flags the term so it can be officially added to the terminology bank after review.
CT Domain-Specific Terminology Banks 3
When a transliterator uses a legal terminology bank and finds multiple approved variants for one term, what is the best practice?