From Contact:

The Golden Rules of the Translator

Number 1 x %*
Number 2 in p%&du
No. 3 of us

Commentary

Rule number one. It is used when there are difficulties in choosing the most appropriate unit for the context of a synonymous series. Very efficient in terms of saving time.

Rule number two. It is indispensable if the word or part of the sentence is not translatable, and also (especially) if the proposal is translated, but at the end there is something that threatens to change the meaning of all the previously translated sentence, and in some cases the text (this is usually encountered by the most talented translators who do the job without reading the entire text).

And finally Rule 3. It is used to solve various kinds of dilemmas, doubts, mismatches and semantic conflicts arising as a result of the application of Rules No. 1 and No. 2.