This item dwells on the specific verbalization of reflection determined by proto texts in view of advanced ideas regarding the cognitive mechanisms of rationalization, perception and data secondary representation, as well as reflexive self-control. There is also a view presented on the speciics of the translator's professional awareness along with a certain focus on the importance of accumulating and rethinking the accumulated speech experience and relection concerning the linguistic status of the target text in the host culture. It is noted that the translation text is secondary both to the original and to the previously performed translations implemented by the same translator: through accumulating the experience of making translation decisions, it acquires ready-made formulas he or she uses in similar text situations with a certain degree of automatism (which does not always have a positive effect on the result). Besides, there is a stress offered on the role of the translator's in- dividual cognitive arrangement, memory and professional experience as well as the role of extra-linguistic factors in terms of affecting translation decisions and ensuring the effectiveness of post-translation editing. Finally, the point of formal requirements for the translation, seen as a secondarily represented text, and its inevitable linguistic differences from the primary represented text due to the activation of inter-language interference and transference mechanisms, as well as the competence of an interpreter, who is able to make informed professional decisions based on a rational assessment measure of the valid violation of the original text autonomy are touched upon.