The role of linguistic knowledge in development of translator's competence

I would like to start by saying that you simply cannot imagine the profession of a technical translator without linguistic knowledge in general. Language, in my view, is actually ‘the big’ keyword if we talk about the translation process. It involves different kinds of texts, both in written and spoken form. They always communicate a variety of ideas in many languages. So, it means that a professional translator should be many-sided and self-confident as well. …