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Excluding proper nouns from word count
Thread poster: Sara Freitas
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It goes as far as you allow it go Apr 2, 2004

Sara Freitas-Maltaverne wrote:

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" As you can guess, it was their justification for requesting 27,000 words in 7 days at my regular rate.

Well, I got the deadline extended and agreed to do the job, but I'm wondering how far this new trend is going to go!
Thanks again for your reply. I love it!
Regards,
Sara


I remember ruining a perfect business with a well established, well paying agency during my green days. I was still freshman -but one hell of a translator, and absolutely their favorite. They were outsorcing me a lot of projects and paying me on time, every Friday weekly!!! Soon after they asked for a discount for a specific project only. Fearing I'd lose such a great business I had gone down with the price. Than they asked a discount on over all rates and I accepted. Deeper discounts meant more work to be done to maintain my standard of living. And the quality has gone down with the price. It was inevitable.

Worst thing is their traffic affected quality of the work I did for the other agencies as well. I realised my mistake. But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't raise my price to its otiginal level. So I refused to work with the agency.


 
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Been there, done that... Apr 7, 2004

I saw something like this in a language school which had asked me to give translation courses and later asked me to serve as consultant for a projected translation department.

I'll admit it didn't bode well from the start. They had bought off the professional partner and turned the school into a private family business.

Then they raised the issue of proper names and numbers. I said, if it was too painful to think of losing cents on them, why didn't they take them all ou
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I saw something like this in a language school which had asked me to give translation courses and later asked me to serve as consultant for a projected translation department.

I'll admit it didn't bode well from the start. They had bought off the professional partner and turned the school into a private family business.

Then they raised the issue of proper names and numbers. I said, if it was too painful to think of losing cents on them, why didn't they take them all out and put them back later themselves? After all, they paid in-house staff on an hourly basis...

THEY ACTUALLY INSISTED. Until the secretary whose job it was to count the names and numbers complained she couldn't do her other tasks.
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