Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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Mox is a young but well educated translator. Two PhDs, six languages...
and he hardly earns the minimum wage.
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Traducciones técnicas - My professional site
Vita Brevis (Spanish). Publishing house whom I collaborate with.
"You mean you actually charge for the spaces between words?"
ReplyDelete"I'm afraid so, but if you prefer, I can remove them for you. There is no extra charge and the service can be provided within a reasonably short timescale"
That's a great one ;)
ReplyDeleteJ'ADORE ! RT automatique... Merci !
ReplyDeleteOh, amazing as usual. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteOh yes, the world out there is eeeevil - should we have an anti-Count-Cradoscula-flashmob?
ReplyDeleteOh gosh, this has definitely happened to me!
ReplyDeleteI was once given a document, to be paid on a per word (Crados) basis. I was told everything needed to be similarly abbreviated to less than 20 characters. So not only did I have to deal with abbreviations of multiple technical words (it was engineering parts), these were all bundled into one hyphenated phrase, with .s or -s as separators - if that!
Some of these software programs seem like mere tools for agencies/end-clients to rip off translators!
Great, thank you!
ReplyDeleteI am very old school in this regard. A word is a word. If I translate the word "the" 100 times, then I charge 100 times. I have heard that this is changing a lot, but still, it seems only fair. I have to look at it 100 times. I have to type it and process it 100 times. And it my target language of Spanish, there are several ways to say "the." Still, my clients keep coming back.
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