Shabelula Aug 21, 2016:

agree with JJDavis

James (Jim) Davis Aug 19, 2016:

Hi Phil No I'm not. But "The paper ran an editorial article... " https://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q="edit... They are interchangeable. I'm focusing on the semantics. Firstly I ask myself, how it is I've been translating all these years and don't know what an "editorial translation" is. In Italian it is self-evident that it must be a translation for a publisher, and I have done many of those, but in English I see the word "editorial" and I firstly think of the editor of the Times and secondly ask myself the question what an "editorial translator" is? I think your "book/publishing translation" is a much better offering. "Book" narrows the field too much. I think "published translation" would do the trick. I'm basically trying to point out that "editore" and "editor" are false friends, very close, but at the same time often distinctly different.

philgoddard Aug 19, 2016:

Jim You're confusing the noun and the adjective.

"Adjective: editorial
Relating to the commissioning or preparing of material for publication.
Noun:
A newspaper article expressing the editor's opinion on a topical issue.
"The paper ran an editorial denouncing his hawkish stand"

James (Jim) Davis Aug 19, 2016:

editore = publisher redattore = editor and editorial would be a piece written by a newspaper editor.
Consequently, any Italian reading the term would immediately think translation of material that is published by publishers (books, magazines and newspapers) and translation of literatures, novels, plays and poetry.
To translate editoriale literally would leave an English reader wondering.