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9th ProZ.com Translation Contest

Contest theme: "Business"

Submission
7-19 Sep '09
Phase 2 *
20-27 Sep '09
Final round voting *
28 Sep - 10 Oct '09
Winners have been determined in 63 pairs.

  • Finals round voting is underway in 42 pairs.


  • Source texts:
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    From "Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son" by George Horace Lorimer.

    I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought, but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.

    A businessman's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are:

    Have something to say.

    Say it.

    Stop talking.

    Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands...





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    Vietnamese
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