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Even more irritating than machine translation: machine project management (looking at you, agencies)
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Baran Keki wrote:

Nobody can convince me that a person could exist in Finland by working for 5 cents per word.


You don't need to exist from it. For 5 cents you could make a nice extra earning when you don't depend on freelance translating. Extra money for a nice cruise trip with your partner, who earns the main income, extra money when you live on the social securing systems countries like Finland and Germany offers, and 5 cents when translating as a European or US citizen at the wonderful beaches of Thailand with much fewer living costs than at home, and when you can return back home from there to your parents when more serious issues occur. 5-cent jobs still have their buyer and will still have, and even when it is just temporarily before you go ahead for a true profession.

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Matthias Brombach wrote:
You don't need to exist from it. For 5 cents you could make a nice extra earning when you don't depend on freelance translating. Extra money for a nice cruise trip with your partner, who earns the main income, extra money when you live on the social securing systems countries like Finland and Germany offers, and 5 cents when translating as a European or US citizen at the wonderful beaches of Thailand with much fewer living costs than at home, and when you can return back home from there to your parents when more serious issues occur. 5-cent jobs still have their buyer and will still have, and even when it is just temporarily before you go ahead for a true profession.

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This is very true, unfortunately. I think it's problematic that part-time freelancers can charge or translate at a price below anything acceptable. It are also probably those people who work mainly for low-cost agencies. A full-time translator who wants and has to earn a decent income just couldn't work at those ridiculous prices.

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Regarding XTRF Dec 21, 2022

In my experience, you can reply to XTRF automated emails and it goes to the project manager.

Can't guarantee that everyone has implemented it that way, but that has been my experience with those of my clients who use XTRF.

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Machine translation Dec 27, 2022

"best-rate Indian agency". Aren't they all best rate?
 
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