The problem is that doing research on Google and Wikipedia takes time, and your client is only paying you so much money. I think that the translators who are mo

The problem is that doing research on Google and Wikipedia takes time, and your client is only paying you so much money. I think that the translators who are most likely to get obscure idioms or references right are those who are fortunate to be married to a bookish speaker of the source language, who can very quickly advise on these issues without the translator having to go off on a long search of the web.