As someone who has had to write technically in a second-language (French, funding agencies in Quebec), this rings particularly true. Luckily, I'm fluent enough

As someone who has had to write technically in a second-language (French, funding agencies in Quebec), this rings particularly true. Luckily, I'm fluent enough to recognise the particularly egregious examples, but finding good translations for technical words is hard! One example that comes to mind is when trying to translate the phrase "data feed" which came back as "alimentation données" which ostensibly means "animal feed data". If you're looking for a lot of English-to-French translations of technical terms, check out the theses any English University in Quebec (McGill, Concordia, etc..). They're made public online [0]. Can't vouch for the quality as I'm sure there are plenty that just use Google Translate, but everyone I know has their abstract edited by a francophone in their field. A good way to validate translated technical terms is to just give them a quick internet search on e.g. DuckDuckGo or Semanticscholar. [0] McGill's is https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/ https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/