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	35th Translation Contest: "Once Upon a Myth"	Submission phase left	Entries 12 Participants 5 Language pairs 6
	34th Translation Contest: "Sounds of Victory"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 170 Participants 132 Language pairs 54
	33rd translation contest: "Back to the playground"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 434 Participants 341 Language pairs 81
	32nd Translation Contest: "Movie night"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 433 Participants 331 Language pairs 81
	31st translation contest: "A translator's life"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 802 Participants 600 Language pairs 114
	30th translation contest: "Translators translating translators"	Finals phase Deadline reached	Entries 106 Participants 91 Language pairs 39
	Mini contest 2021: "Ilustraciones"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 170 Participants 118 Language pairs 53
	28th translation contest: "CPN contest"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 124 Participants 110 Language pairs 30
	27th translation contest: "Stories about nature"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 455 Participants 406 Language pairs 77
	26 translation contest: "Game on"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 328 Participants 293 Language pairs 61
	25th translation contest: "Alien first impressions"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 535 Participants 437 Language pairs 85
	Inspired by poetry: "Ploughing mountainsides"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 372 Participants 362 Language pairs 55
	Mox presents: "The comic life of a translator"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 693 Participants 665 Language pairs 71
	Bon voyage: "Stories about travel"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 481 Participants 407 Language pairs 77
	21st translation contest: "The tides of tech"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 586 Participants 540 Language pairs 64
	Strange urgency: "The cat"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 42 Participants 35 Language pairs 11
	Benevolent deception: "The placebo button effect"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 382 Participants 330 Language pairs 57
	Translation mash-up: "Dust Bowl"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 104 Participants 96 Language pairs 42
	Homo-digital: "La sociedad transparente"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 82 Participants 76 Language pairs 23
	17th Translation Contest: "The Sounds of Silence"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 883 Participants 810 Language pairs 77
	2014 annual ProZ.com translation contest: "Celebrations"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 2,840 Participants 2,114 Language pairs 222
	Exploring the desert: "The Doomed City"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 79 Participants 78 Language pairs 18
	Sin telaraña en las pupilas: "Frases de Oliverio Girondo"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 196 Participants 136 Language pairs 20
	Poetry with a tune: "Translation of Lyrics"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 285 Participants 263 Language pairs 38
	11th ProZ.com translation contest: "Contemporary society"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 820 Participants 668 Language pairs 93
	Mini-contest 2012: "Yogi Berra Quotes"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 625 Participants 593 Language pairs 64
	9th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Business"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 1,163 Participants 769 Language pairs 141
	1st Annual ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Awakening"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 933 Participants 705 Language pairs 120
	7th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Sports"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 526 Participants 403 Language pairs 107
	6th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Relationships"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 591 Participants 451 Language pairs 98
	5th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Travel"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 464 Participants 358 Language pairs 67
	Fourth ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Raising children"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 518 Participants 393 Language pairs 82
	Third ProZ.com Translation Contest	Finished (View winners)	Entries 230 Participants 208 Language pairs 49
	Second ProZ.com Translation Contest 2007	Finished (View winners)	Entries 119 Participants 95 Language pairs 33
	First ProZ.com Translation Contest 2007: "First ProZ.com Translation Contest 2007"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 240 Participants 186 Language pairs 18

Recent discussion about ProZ.com translation contests

Editorial Error in Source Text: Misattribution of "Cherwit Make" in Pima Mythology Excerpt	Thanks for the heads-up! Hi Ricardo, Thank you for pointing out this issue. I'll make the necessary changes as soon as possible and contact all members to submit their translations again. Thank you again for your collaboration. Ana Contest Organizer Ricardo Aries wrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to flag a clear editorial error in a source text excerpt based on Charles M. Skinner’s Myths and Legends of Our Own Land (1896), specifically the Pima legend "The Ark on Superstition Mountains." I’m sharing this in case anyone else encounters this passage or similar parenthetical misattributions in working source texts. The Passage in Question: "There was one Hauk, a devil of the mountains, who stole their daughters and slew their sons. […] He (Cherwit Make) silently followed him into the Superstition Mountains; he drugged the cactus wine that his daughter was to serve to him; then, when he had drunk it, Suha emerged from his place of hiding and beat out the brains of the stupefied fiend." The Narrative Contradiction: Cherwit Make is the creator deity (the butterfly spirit who creates humanity from sweat and later sends the flood). Suha is the patriarch/human ancestor whose daughters were abducted by the mountain devil Hauk. Inserting (Cherwit Make) after "He" creates an immediate plot contradiction: if Cherwit Make was the one pursuing Hauk and arranging the drug with his daughter, Suha suddenly stepping out of hiding at the end to execute Hauk makes no sense. Checking the 1896 Original: In Skinner’s original publication, the preceding sentence reads: "The patriarch, whose patience had been taxed to its limit, then made a vow to slay the devil. [...] He silently followed him..." Here, "He" unambiguously refers back to "The patriarch" (Suha), not Cherwit Make. A later editor misread the pronoun reference and inserted (Cherwit Make) in brackets. In short, it’s a clear case of an editor attempting to 'clarify' an ambiguous pronoun and accidentally breaking the narrative logic instead.	Ana Moirano Argentina
Editorial Error in Source Text: Misattribution of "Cherwit Make" in Pima Mythology Excerpt	Hi everyone, I wanted to flag a clear editorial error in a source text excerpt based on Charles M. Skinner’s Myths and Legends of Our Own Land (1896), specifically the Pima legend "The Ark on Superstition Mountains." I’m sharing this in case anyone else encounters this passage or similar parenthetical misattributions in working source texts. The Passage in Question: "There was one Hauk, a devil of the mountains, who stole their daughters and slew their sons. […] He (Cherwit Make) silently followed him into the Superstition Mountains; he drugged the cactus wine that his daughter was to serve to him; then, when he had drunk it, Suha emerged from his place of hiding and beat out the brains of the stupefied fiend." The Narrative Contradiction: Cherwit Make is the creator deity (the butterfly spirit who creates humanity from sweat and later sends the flood). Suha is the patriarch/human ancestor whose daughters were abducted by the mountain devil Hauk. Inserting (Cherwit Make) after "He" creates an immediate plot contradiction: if Cherwit Make was the one pursuing Hauk and arranging the drug with his daughter, Suha suddenly stepping out of hiding at the end to execute Hauk makes no sense. Checking the 1896 Original: In Skinner’s original publication, the preceding sentence reads: "The patriarch, whose patience had been taxed to its limit, then made a vow to slay the devil. [...] He silently followed him..." Here, "He" unambiguously refers back to "The patriarch" (Suha), not Cherwit Make. A later editor misread the pronoun reference and inserted (Cherwit Make) in brackets. In short, it’s a clear case of an editor attempting to 'clarify' an ambiguous pronoun and accidentally breaking the narrative logic instead.	Ricardo Aries Indonesia
Discussion about 33rd translation contest: "Back to the playground" in English to Amharic	Nice I appreciate this type of competitions	Andualem Taye Ethiopia
Discussion about 34th Translation Contest: "Sounds of Victory" in English to Arabic	Three point look = منطقة الثلاث نقاط بالفعل يا أستاذ محمد، يقال "تصويبة ثلاثية النقاط" في حالة قيام اللاعب بتسديد رمية واحدة وفي حالة التصويب الصحيح يُمنح الفريق 3 نقاط دفعة واحدة لكن a three-point look = تشير تحديداً إلى منطقة الثلاث نقاط، أي أن اللاعب يقف وراء خط الثلاث نقاط ويقوم بتسديد رمية واحد لذلك، فإن التفسير الدقيق في رأيي هو ترجمتها إلى " رمية من وراء/خلف خط الثلاث نقاط إذا شاهدت الفيديو، ستجد أن اللاعب لم ينجح في إحراز "رمية/تصويبة ثلاثية النقاط" وإن ما قام به هو محاولة لتسديد رمية من وراء خط الثلاث نقاط [Edited at 2025-07-16 21:39 GMT]	Heba Abed Egypt
Discussion about 34th Translation Contest: "Sounds of Victory" in English to Arabic	Agree في كرة السلة يقال على تلك الرمية تصويبة ثلاثية وتعني رمية واحدة تمنح الفريق 3 نقاط دفعة واحدة	Mohamed Raheem Kuwait

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