Is Plain Legal Language Easy to Translate?

This article examines two machine translations of the same English contract (contract of supply) made using DeepL Pro in March 2022 and March 2023. The contract was used in my practice as a legal translator trainer. It proved easy to understand but difficult to translate into Polish, where plain leg...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Anna Setkowicz-Ryszka
Format:	Article
Published:	2023
Series:	PÁZMÁNY LAW REVIEW 10 No. 1
doi:	10.55019/plr.2023.1.27-44
mtmt:	35766778
Online Access:	https://publikacio.ppke.hu/2241

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