Oh lala translation and the humanitarian aspect Thread poster: Brandis (X)
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Brandis (X)
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Hi!
you must know this. I was given a 6000 word project file at a high price, finishing only a couple of hours time frame. There is a TM too. Now I took analysis of the file and gave a quotation on the nomatch count, but the agency wishes to give me the matches also Now where is the catch. Sometimes the work can be great. Best Brandis
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[Edited at 2006-09-01 10:18]
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Brandis (X)
Local time: 21:41
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TOPIC STARTER | Oh well Leray | Sep 1, 2006 |
Sylvain Leray wrote: .... ??? . [Edited at 2006-09-01 10:18]
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| Haven't got a clue | Sep 1, 2006 |
Sorry, Brandis. Haven't got a clue about your topic.
Do you want to charge less than your client is willing to pay?? No good idea. Of course there are good clients in the business. And what other troubles, after delivery of work, are you talking about? Could you explain this further. Thanks.
Best regards
Erik
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gwm 
United Kingdom
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Member (2005)
| Brandis just wants to share his happiness... | Sep 1, 2006 |
... that a client didn't quibble,even offered to pay the full rate. Since this doesn't happen that often, I think he rightly is exhilarated about it.
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Brandis (X)
Local time: 21:41
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TOPIC STARTER | I think Gisela understood the situation perfectly | Sep 1, 2006 |
Erik Hansson wrote:
Sorry, Brandis. Haven't got a clue about your topic.
Do you want to charge less than your client is willing to pay?? No good idea. Of course there are good clients in the business. And what other troubles, after delivery of work, are you talking about? Could you explain this further. Thanks.
Best regards
Erik I did not quote low, instead as much as €0.15, the job sounded tough, well the files were not difficult, but there was no matching (trados) full count. That is what I wanted to share, because a thing like this doesn´t happen to us. The client is not new to business. I wonder why he had agreed gladly to my price. Now I shall post again when everything is finished, delivered and the payment is in . Best Brandis p.s Did you get it now.
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| Matches and matches | Sep 1, 2006 |
Brandis wrote:
Now I took analysis of the file and gave a quotation on the nomatch count, but the agency wishes to give me the matches also
There are matches and matches. Charging nothing for 100 % match or repetition can be fatal.
If any of our clients say that they won't pay for the 100 % matches, I explain to them that we won't check those matches either. No money, no work.
Don't rely too much on matches. There are far too many distinctions in languages to be sure that one single word in a source language only has one single translation - often there are more. Just think about the different German verb forms for headlines, imperative and so on.
Brandis wrote:
Did you get it now.
Thank you for taking your precious time and explaining this to me. But what about the troubles you think you're going to face. If you think there's a catch, you'd rather not take the job.
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sylvie malich (X)
Germany
Local time: 21:41
German to English
Gisela Murdter wrote:
... that a client didn't quibble,even offered to pay the full rate. Since this doesn't happen that often, I think he rightly is exhilarated about it.
This doesn't happen that often? Oh really?
..."humanitarian aspect".... (scratches head)
[Edited at 2006-09-01 18:30]
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