1,300 word sample test विषय पोस्ट करनेवाला व्यक्ति: Toon Theuwis (X)
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Toon Theuwis (X) 
बेलजियम
Local time: 04:09
अंग्रेजी से डच
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A job was just posted with the following specs:
Required to take a test translation of 1,300 words
Rate between $0.01 - $0.02 (edit: not for the sample!)
Don't know if I should laugh, cry or just not care.
Edit: I should add it's for a 'dark romance novel' (72,000 words). Not that it makes a difference though
[Edited at 2017-02-09 20:46 GMT]
| | | | | | Lianne van de Ven
संयुक्त राज्य अमरीका
Local time: 22:09
सदस्य (2008)
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| Go to Babelcube | Feb 9, 2017 |
I read your post wrong, I thought they would pay $.02/word for the test translation, but it's for the entire 78K! I wish proz.com would not allow job postings that don't meet minimum requirements, or at least that I would not be notified of jobs that don't match my minimum rates. Now that I think of it... I thought I already had selected such setting.... Yup, this is all out there, increasing your awareness...
| | | | | "Don't know if I should laugh, cry or just not care" | Feb 9, 2017 |
All 3 of them!
Where is the client located? Mars?
[Edited at 2017-02-09 22:55 GMT]
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jyuan_us
संयुक्त राज्य अमरीका
Local time: 22:09
सदस्य (2005)
अंग्रेजी से चीनी
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| I got this email today from someone located in Palestine | Feb 9, 2017 |
His initial email looks like this:
"I want to translate my project from English to
Chinese.
Can you do it ?
0.01 USD per word
nice to deal with you"
I decided to play with him, so I wrote him back saying "OK. Let me see the file so that I can tell you if I can do it or not".
I got this reply fro him:
"I will sent a test paragraph, please translate it to prove your ability to do it .
Then I will sent to you the proj... See more His initial email looks like this:
"I want to translate my project from English to
Chinese.
Can you do it ?
0.01 USD per word
nice to deal with you"
I decided to play with him, so I wrote him back saying "OK. Let me see the file so that I can tell you if I can do it or not".
I got this reply fro him:
"I will sent a test paragraph, please translate it to prove your ability to do it .
Then I will sent to you the project to translate it .
In 12 hours please .
Nice to deal with you".
Are these people insane, or just scammers? I guess scammers are supposed to offer something much better, maybe 10 times of his price. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Michael Newton
संयुक्त राज्य अमरीका
Local time: 22:09
जापानी से अंग्रेजी
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| 1,300 word sample test | Feb 10, 2017 |
If this agency contacts 55 translators who are each tasked with providing a sample of approximately 1300 words, the entire book can be translated for free.
| | | | Thayenga
जर्मनी
Local time: 04:09
सदस्य (2009)
अंग्रेजी से जर्मन
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| Let me guess | Feb 10, 2017 |
The entire project consists of 1,300 words. If not, they'll find enough people (not real translators!) to complete the job. Admittedly, I didn't read that job post. Still, nice try, and... better luck next time.
[Edited at 2017-02-10 07:00 GMT]
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jyuan_us wrote:
I decided to play with him, so I wrote him back saying "OK. Let me see the file so that I can tell you if I can do it or not".
I got this reply fro him:
"I will sent a test paragraph, please translate it to prove your ability to do it .
Next step would be to send back the "test" completely translated by GT and wait for their reactions...
I guess they will not realise it.
[Edited at 2017-02-10 08:02 GMT]
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Maija Cirule
लैटिविया
Local time: 05:09
जर्मन से अंग्रेजी
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| I think that you should feel | Feb 10, 2017 |
Toon Theuwis wrote:
A job was just posted with the following specs:
Required to take a test translation of 1,300 words
Rate between $0.01 - $0.02 (edit: not for the sample!)
Don't know if I should laugh, cry or just not care.
Edit: I should add it's for a 'dark romance novel' (72,000 words). Not that it makes a difference though
[Edited at 2017-02-09 20:46 GMT]
a deep contempt for colleagues ready to work for peanut skins. If there were no such "translators", there would not be such "assignment offers".
| | | | Lingua 5B
बोसनिया हरजेगोविना
Local time: 04:09
सदस्य (2009)
अंग्रेजी से क्रोशियाई
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Michael Newton wrote:
If this agency contacts 55 translators who are each tasked with providing a sample of approximately 1300 words, the entire book can be translated for free.
That'd be a lovely book to read, patch-work book. "Dark" romance novel indeed, the patch work would add an additional layer of darkness.
| | | | philgoddard
संयुक्त राज्य अमरीका
जर्मन से अंग्रेजी
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| Why don't they crowdsource it? | Feb 10, 2017 |
They could ask 72,000 translators each to do one word for free.
| | | | | Long samples | Feb 10, 2017 |
Hello, dear members.
I am pretty new here. However, I already could see a very strange selection method for translators.
I am a very knowledgeable specialist in gene therapy and similar. There are many terms and reaction description in this new technology field that only those, hands-on-specialists, would know.
Regular translators (with all due respect to other translators) would not have the knowledge without appropriate experience.
So about a year ago I applie... See more Hello, dear members.
I am pretty new here. However, I already could see a very strange selection method for translators.
I am a very knowledgeable specialist in gene therapy and similar. There are many terms and reaction description in this new technology field that only those, hands-on-specialists, would know.
Regular translators (with all due respect to other translators) would not have the knowledge without appropriate experience.
So about a year ago I applied for just such a project, in which I new I could give the best translation. I received several pretty long samples. I translated all of them. Some samples for editing had very bad mistakes, and I corrected them. I spend several hours (~5) of my time.
So what? You can guess. I did not get a job. I was very surprised.
Now I can see that these types of jobs advertised here periodically.
I do believe, that some translators use newbies (however, experts in the field) like me to "help" translating some specialized new technology texts. ▲ Collapse
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| 72,000 shades of translation | Feb 11, 2017 |
| | | | | Indeed unbelievable | Feb 13, 2017 |
... that Proz.com allows these types of posters, the combination of max $0.02 per word AND the requirement of an unpaid 1300-words test, do they take us for fools?
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