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How does an agency become successful?
Thread poster: Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL
Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL
Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:17
Member (2004)
English to Italian
Oct 29, 2004

Use Proz.com's bidding system, dictate low rates to the translators, pass the benefits on to the end client. Everybody is happy. No? Not really. Because soon our category will disappear: it will be too uneconomical to translate.
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Use Proz.com's bidding system, dictate low rates to the translators, pass the benefits on to the end client. Everybody is happy. No? Not really. Because soon our category will disappear: it will be too uneconomical to translate.

http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/english/un/uneconomical.html

Happy bunny Giovanni

P.S. As you all know, I don't like the bidding system and this is not a stab at Proz.Com as a whole, but at the bidding culture. Also, I don't like very much agencies that boast about how successfull they are when they pay translators peanuts. And finally thanks to Mats for the telephone call...



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Harry Bornemann
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Mexico
Local time: 15:17
English to German
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How do you know? Oct 29, 2004

Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL wrote:
How does an agency become successful?
Use Proz.com's bidding system, dictate low rates to the translators, pass the benefits on to the end client...


Have you tried it? Or are you just looking at some people who pretend to be successful?

Anyway, thanks for the Webster's link, I didn't have it in my favorites, yet.
 
Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL
Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:17
Member (2004)
English to Italian
TOPIC STARTER
Have you tried it? Oct 29, 2004

Harry_B wrote:

Have you tried it?


No, not really, and I wouldn't like to try it.



Or are you just looking at some people who pretend to be successful?



Sorry, but I don't quite get this one...

I hope you enjoy the dictionary... something good out of a post which has been hugely successful...

Giovanni
 
Mirella Soffio
Mirella Soffio  Identity Verified
Italy
Local time: 23:17
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Well spotted, Giovanni! Oct 29, 2004

C'mon, guys, translators & editors are supposedly good at spotting typos in printed texts AND at understanding irony.
Keep trying!
You'll need a basic knowledge of Italian, though...

Mirella (bunny huntress)
 


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