During the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway, information and instructions about how to behave in this crisis situation were translated into more than forty languages, including Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS). After an initially slow reaction by the authorities, these translations were made available for free on various platforms. However, little is known about whether the translations were acceptable to the target groups. This article concentrates on quality assurance of translations by examining several official translations from Norwegian via English into BCS found on the webpages of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Several challenges are observed in these translations concerning terminology, the influence of the source language on collocations and syntax in the target languages, and translation choices in rendering modal expressions. These issues point to a need for systematic quality assurance of translations in crisis situations.
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