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John Fossey Canada Local time: 07:51 Member (2008) French to English + ...
Dec 12, 2013
In case anyone noticed, close to a million machine translated words of legal and technical topics, to be post-edited in 30 days! Takes my breath away!
I'm just glad I'm not the end client, counting on the accuracy of these legal and technical documents.
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Jeff Whittaker United States Local time: 07:51 Spanish to English + ...
Yikes!
Dec 12, 2013
Even at .02 a word (.01 for the agency and .01 for the "translator") that is still $19,000 of the client's money that they may as well just flush down the toilet.
Better to pay someone $3000 to distill the information down to the 50,000 words they really need and then pay someone .20 a word to translate. They would spend less money and have a translation they can use for something other than the bathroom or lining a birdcage.
[Edited at 2013-12-12 03:38 GMT]
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LilianNekipelov United States Local time: 07:51 Russian to English + ...
What a wast of the internet
Dec 12, 2013
and electricity -- so many potentially harmful words.
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