I am delighted to be one of the winners and would like to propose that, at least as a target text, you separate UK and US English for future contests. This occurred to me during the voting stage when I read the translations from my peers

I think Stephen's idea about separating US and UK English deserves discussion, at least.

One reason is that there are many subtle differences that can dramatically alter people's impressions about a translation - examples: some uses of should versus would, or shall versus will, and even rules of punctuation.

Perhaps it is not feasible, since eligibility to participate depends on members' working language pairs. But if it could be worked out, it would reduce the number of contestants in each contest and enable more close scrutiny and more concentrated voting. One could perhaps enter a translation in either one of the two, but could vote in both UK and US. ??????

Other ideas, anyone?

Thank you so much for voting for my translation and special thanks to my talented colleague George Lalazissis who helped me go for some risky choices. It is the second time I win the contest and since I'm not as much an active professional as I am a translation teacher, positive feedback on my work is very welcome. If you think I'm a super translator I should let you know that it's very difficult for me to answer the Kudoz questions as I don't have experience in technical translations so there you have it. I tried to give this translation a certain "twist" and apparently you appreciated it so thanks again and good luck next time - oh yes, I'm going to try again! :) A thought that has just occurred to me is that the certificate I will receive will probably be identical to the first one. What if the certificate of two-time winners certify this fact or be a bit different? I'm thinking that this should be an incentive for members to participate in the next contests and especially for winners to try again.



Once again many thanks and regards to all Greek proz.com members!

I'm just exuberant! I'm the winner for the English-Chinese pair. As a new prozian, this prize means so much to me.

Any ideas that how and when I get the certificate?

I am very proud to be the winner for the German-Dutch pair. The subject was very familiar to me, because I have a kid in the described age, so it was very fun to do.

How objective is the result, when for language combination English into Czech only 2 people voted and therefore there are 2 winners. Isn't in a place a condition about minimum number of votes to proceed before official announcement of winner takes place?

Thank you so much! I am honoured to be the winner of the French-Spanish pair. Thanks to those who voted for my translation. I agree with Dallas Cao, for us new prozers it means a lot.

My thanks as well to all the organizers! I saw the result only yesterday; it has been a very pleasant surprise...

Why was there no winner announced in two language pairs with more than 3 entries? (Es-Ru, Es-De)

I had no idea about the contest... was it announced anywhere or anyhow? :(

Flavio, the home page of ProZ.com has shown it. Check your settings for Proz.com home page.

Fantastic contest, great thanks to whom took care choosing and posting the texts !!! So many plays of words, ex. in English source: "the bees and the birds" (I guess it was not simple to translate it into Italian ;)) and "roller coaster" (all Roman group as one translated "Russian hills/runs", all Russian group translated "American hills/runs").
That really was an amusement !

I have a suggestion for the next contest. This actually happened to me. I participated in the contest, I got a negative vote but I don't know why? I suggest that when voters give a negative vote, they should at least write a line of 'why?' Were there grammar errors, typos, the translation was too literal?, etc.