| Pages in topic: [1 2] > | How are your capacity? 10000 words/day? Thread poster: nortranslate (X)
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nortranslate (X)
Norway
Local time: 04:32
English to Norwegian
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Just an amusing e-mail I got today, April 22nd.:
"Hi,
Greetings from A---- multilingual services Pvt Ltd.
We have a project for Norwegian-English consisting of 47000 words deadline for the same will be by sunday evening.
We can offer a price of USD 0.04 per word and the payment will be made within 45 days after you raise the invoice against the PO raised by us.
please let us know your availability.
awaiting a positive response,
... See more Just an amusing e-mail I got today, April 22nd.:
"Hi,
Greetings from A---- multilingual services Pvt Ltd.
We have a project for Norwegian-English consisting of 47000 words deadline for the same will be by sunday evening.
We can offer a price of USD 0.04 per word and the payment will be made within 45 days after you raise the invoice against the PO raised by us.
please let us know your availability.
awaiting a positive response,
Regards,
--------.B"
First they do not want to pay a decent rate, they do not tell me the nature of the text, and still they want me to translate 47000 words by April 26th. That would be almost 12000 words a day.
I don't know about you, and your capacity, but I'm just not that good. Especially not from Norwegian to English.
Of course this is a scam. They are practically telling you that they are trying to screw you.
(needless to say, but this company has been banned from Proz)
[Edited at 2009-04-22 19:56 GMT] ▲ Collapse
| | | | liz askew 
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:32
Member (2007)
French to English
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| the bionic translator | Apr 22, 2009 |
Well, if anybody could translate 12,000 words a day they would need to be bionic and would have to be paid hell of a lot more
I think I can safely say that this is a ridiculous request!
Byeee
Liz Askew
| | | | | 12,000 words a day is possible | Apr 22, 2009 |
In the case of a text with over 80% repetition it would be quite feasible, in fact. If, in addition, all repetitions were paid for at the rate of 4 cents per word, of either dollars or euros, it would not be too bad a deal at all.
| | | | Lise Leavitt
United States
Local time: 22:32
Member (2008)
Danish to English
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nortranslate wrote:
"Hi,
Greetings from A---- multilingual services Pvt Ltd.
We have a project for Norwegian-English consisting of 47000 words deadline for the same will be by sunday evening.
I think I know who you are talking about....they have also raised a big storm on TranslatorCafe.
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Textklick
Local time: 03:32
German to English
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In memoriam
Astrid Elke Johnson wrote:
In the case of a text with over 80% repetition it would be quite feasible, in fact. If, in addition, all repetitions were paid for at the rate of 4 cents per word, of either dollars or euros, it would not be too bad a deal at all.
Really?
If....
A good word
| | | | | I have done such amount 2 times in my life.. | Apr 22, 2009 |
within 24 hours I had to do such project (without cat)
there are some texts where you do not need any dictionary or references.
just starting to press the keys and go on ( but there would be something which will stimulate or motivate you) in my case it was fear
If just for one or two days then it is possible.
But within 4 days everyday to translate such amount definitely impossible
The possibl... See more within 24 hours I had to do such project (without cat)
there are some texts where you do not need any dictionary or references.
just starting to press the keys and go on ( but there would be something which will stimulate or motivate you) in my case it was fear
If just for one or two days then it is possible.
But within 4 days everyday to translate such amount definitely impossible
The possible time for ONE translator would be at least 6 days for 47.000 words (but this person after completing it will need to rest at least 24 hours) ▲ Collapse
| | | | Uldis Liepkalns
Latvia
Local time: 05:32
Member (2003)
English to Latvian
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| Let's be serious | Apr 22, 2009 |
Or more probably 3 months rehabilitation in an asylum.
M. Ali Bayraktar wrote:
But within 4 days everyday to translate such amount definitely impossible.
The possible time for ONE translator would be at least 6 days for 47.000 words (but this person after completing it will need to rest at least 24 hours)
@ Astrid-
"Never assume anything" (c) Short Business Management Handbook
My addition- especially 80% repetitions paid in full by the Agency from country XXX.
Not to mention that the said outsourcer, going by the BB, apparently isn't intending to pay anybody anything at all.
Uldis
| | | | liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:32
Member (2007)
French to English
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| In the case of a text with over 80% repetition | Apr 23, 2009 |
Well, if such a text exists it would need serious editing so that it was much more manageable.
I would think the reader would be bored to tears were such a text to exist.
I could offer to edit the text at a very good price:-)
Liz
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Lise Leavitt wrote:
I think I know who you are talking about....they have also raised a big storm on TranslatorCafe.
the mention to TC hasn't been deleted yet? Proz's moderators are slacking...
[Edited at 2009-04-23 11:06 GMT]
| | | | MLeiria
Portugal
Local time: 03:32
Member (2005)
English to Portuguese
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| Only USD 0.04? | Apr 23, 2009 |
I'm surprised.
If this is the company I'm thinking about, they probably won't pay anyway, so they could as well offer USD 0.40
| | | | Özden Arıkan
Germany
Local time: 04:32
Member
English to Turkish
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| Why don't you submit a support ticket, Giovanni? | Apr 23, 2009 |
Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL wrote: Lise Leavitt wrote:
I think I know who you are talking about....they have also raised a big storm on TranslatorCafe. the mention to TC hasn't been deleted yet? Proz's moderators are slacking... [Edited at 2009-04-23 11:06 GMT]
And while you're at it, maybe you can also tell them to move this non-OT thread elsewhere
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liz askew wrote:
Well, if such a text exists it would need serious editing so that it was much more manageable.
I would think the reader would be bored to tears were such a text to exist.
I could offer to edit the text at a very good price:-)
Liz
Not everything has a reader. Not everything is a text in any conventional sense. Some materials to be translated are massively repetitive, and are not intended to be read (software localization comes to mind).
Anyway, the "job" in question is surely some sort of scam.
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| So how much DO you translate per day? | Apr 24, 2009 |
I'm quite fussy about what I take on from Norwegian. It is usually the sort of thing where a CAT is often useful for terminology and consistency, but the repetitions are not worth counting.
Marketing, that needs to be formulated for the target group, newspaper articles for the general reader and so on. I need to watch out for false friends between Danish and Norwegian, but I never promise to do more than 2000 source words a day, apart from reliable 100% matches.
That gi... See more I'm quite fussy about what I take on from Norwegian. It is usually the sort of thing where a CAT is often useful for terminology and consistency, but the repetitions are not worth counting.
Marketing, that needs to be formulated for the target group, newspaper articles for the general reader and so on. I need to watch out for false friends between Danish and Norwegian, but I never promise to do more than 2000 source words a day, apart from reliable 100% matches.
That gives me something like 2200 - 2500 words in English, and it is quite a tough day.
Happy translating folks! ▲ Collapse
| | | | Alex Lago
Spain
Local time: 04:32
English to Spanish
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| 500 words per hour | Apr 24, 2009 |
I translate into various language pairs, but in my two strongest (EN>ES, ES>EN), on a general text I can do about 500 words per hour (that includes translating and proofreading), so to do 10,000 words I would have to work 20 hours. As I usually translate for about 6-8 hours a day I can do between 3,000 and 4,000 words per day.
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