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I'm happy to plug-n-play most glossaries (unless they're utter crud).
In my experience, the more reference material you're sent, the worse quality it is. So if they send one document, I
[quote]Chris S wrote:
Absolutely. But then it isn't a site for professionals. [/quote]
Giovanni's right, back in the day, it used to be. Perceived abuses of the kudoz system we
As has been pointed out, a general policy of "paying vendors where they pay taxes" sounds a little bit too much of an imposition by a client on how we run our businesses. And as such sligh
One wonders, given the on-going discussion around Luxembourg's role in tax avoidance and, indeed, evasion, whether the issue is not so much that you have chosen to operate a bank account o
[quote]Julian Holmes wrote:
If they don't accept my initial brush-off and try to make me reconsider, for example, by extending the deadline or dangling a carrot in the form of a higher
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
Yes, but what if you don't [u]need[/u] to ask 3000 questions per year, but you [i]want to[/i] anyway?
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Screw that, frankly. If you want to
[quote]Julian Holmes wrote:
But, then, as a technical translator, I hardly ever get asked to do 'murky' stuff like assault rifle manuals or Waterboarding for Dummies written in Japanese
[quote]Nikki Scott-Despaigne wrote:
I'm taking it that the question uses the term "issue" to mean "problem" and not just "matter".
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... I took it to mean matter, subject,<
A notorious kudoz poster reached the milestone of her 7,000th question this weekend.
She's been a member here not quite ten years. She also posts questions on TC.
I remember being invo
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
I never need customer service, Oliver. [/quote]
I know what you mean. But never move house. They still owe me £20 from when I was with them years ago and
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
So, how do *you* use the BTM?
[/quote]
I do know what it means and used it once or twice in the past (years ago) without really understanding the poin
[quote]Maija Cirule wrote:
so what? Why I should be concerned about their tax payment practices? [/quote]
A company doing business in a country makes both direct and indirect use of<
[quote]Julian Holmes wrote:
Good point, Charlie. If a customer is not going to pay you on time or not at all, they will do that, anyway, regardless of whether they give you advance
[quote]Andy Watkinson wrote:
[quote]Julian Holmes wrote:
I am currently negotiating with a prospective new customer. Their Payment Policy document includes the following statemen
[quote]Chris S wrote:
Right now I'm sitting on the toilet [/quote]
and if you were working (as per the question) at the time, does that mean you passed an
[quote]Samantha Payne wrote:
[quote]Bernhard Sulzer wrote:
"that speaking out is at best unproductive." You don't want me to start telling you what happened in the history of mankind when people kept quiet about t
Perhaps they've become a little less biased in recent years or maybe I'm just lucky with the Traflagar policy (through CIoL) but the traps mentioned above do not appear to figure in mine.<
It's all about the money. All that other stuff is unlikely to satisfy the Bank of Scotland, or Sainsburys, or npower (spit) or 3 Valleys Water, and so on and so forth.
It is a pity this
[quote]Henry Hinds wrote:
Every time this subject arises I ask if anyone knows of a translator who has become subject to liability. It's been years and years, and I have yet to get
[quote]Thomas T. Frost wrote:
[quote]Charlie Bavington wrote:
Just to make it complicated, even if the OP were registered for VAT in the UK, translation services billed to a business
[quote]Luke Mersh wrote:
I told them that in the UK you can not register for a VAT number until you reach the threshold [/quote]
Yes you can. You can register for VAT at any level
[quote]Łukasz Gos-Furmankiewicz wrote:
Sigh, another rude agency from the UK. I wonder what's going on in the country that essentially invented the concept of gentlemanly conduct. [/qu
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
I think you ought to re-read my original post, and my follow-ups. I did not ask anything like the question you attribute to me.
[quote]Michael Wetzel
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
That, plus the absence of any coherent explanation in this thread of why a "technical guy" is necessary, or of what he actually does,.... (snip) [/quote]
[quote]Teresa Borges wrote:
most of the texts I translate are creative and not repetitive, [/quote]
CAT tools can in fact help just as much to make sure you do not repeat yourself,
[quote]Claire Cox wrote:
I certainly have the impression that many colleagues are lacking in self-esteem - or business confidence, as James described it ..... Now whether that's lack of
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
I'm here to garner as much knowledge as possible about what my experience would be if I started to use Windows.[/quote]
You do seem reluctant, though.
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
[quote]Emma Goldsmith wrote:
stuff [/quote]
Couldn't understand a word of that- sorry. [/quote]
Made perfect sense to me. Although I suspect there m
[quote]Wendy Leech wrote:
I would have been more than happy to proofread the English as a document in its own right; the issue comes when I am told to cross-check it against the sou
[quote]jyuan_us wrote:
Isn't it your job to delete any information that is not found in the source text [/quote]
That is essentially the crux of the question this thread, given the
[quote]Mikhail Kropotov wrote:
I would love to find out more about the agency's detailed reasoning, but I doubt I will be able to elicit much more out of them without being represented
[quote]Mikhail Kropotov wrote:
Due to your [inadequate performance], we lost a very important client resulting in having to forfeit payment for other translations (other languages) as w
[quote]Mikhail Kropotov wrote:
They claim that "they've put a hold on my account" because they somehow incurred damages in connection with my work on the uninvoiced PO which outweigh th
[quote]Gabriele Demuth wrote:
if it generally takes more time than translating from scratch, why is this still being offered?
[/quote]
I only tried it once, with a simple text (an
[quote]Elisa Fernández Vic wrote:
I have recently been contacted by an agency for post-editing services and, while I refused, this has left me thinking about why should or should n
At any given instant, a business, whether incorporated or otherwise, will have both assets and liabilities.
Assets will include accounts receivable (money you are owed, mainly by c
[quote]aschwam wrote:
Any ideas why someone might do this? [/quote]
Seems possible the actual translation need is genuine enough and you are simply not being paid for it, full stop.<
[quote]Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL wrote:
but my goal is to reach my target first... I don't go on holiday when I accomplish that, on the contrary... :-) [/quote]
Going on holiday I
[quote]aschwam wrote:
... and sent an official-looking French bank document verifying that a bank transfer had been made between our accounts (I also live in France and have the same
[quote]Gabriele Demuth wrote:
I feel that this is a very strange market.
Because if well educated and skilled people cannot make a reasonable living by charging adequate prices then<
[quote]Angela Rimmer wrote:
(God, I hate the word "peanuts".) [/quote]
See also http://www.proz.com/forum/business_issues/287692-w hat_is_really_happening_in_the_business-page3.html
[quote]Teresa Borges wrote:
It seems that I know my maths, but apparently I do need a new pair of glasses as I wrote correctly but read 0.0412... Sorry! [/quote]
No worries. It has s
[quote]Teresa Borges wrote:
[quote]Joakim Braun wrote:
And 13,000 EUR is way too much, and 4 months way too long, and an outlook.fr address isn't what someone with a 13,000 EUR trans
[quote]Angela Rimmer wrote:
The contract is not "translation of X document by this time at this price", rather it is "translation of 9000 words by this time at this price". [/quote]
[quote]Nikki Scott-Despaigne wrote:
1) The basic facts.
The Agent believed that it was supplying 9,000 and you believed you were accepting 9,000 words. It was not until some later
[quote]DJHartmann wrote:
The translation of this project is going well, [/quote]
This is not the impression created by either this thread or the rest of the letter!
[quote] I�
[quote]Rebecca Lyne wrote:
for a period of 10 (ten) years after the last service provided for XX and from the date on which I receive the documents for translation and/or the date of th
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
[quote]LaraBarnett wrote:
I have a client in Portugal asking for a Certificate of Fiscal Residence in order to receive work from them.[/quote]
the Doub
Fear not, it is so obviously intended as a spoof I'm astounded anyone was taken in.
However, I think someone must have been reading this website's discussion from two (or was it 3?)
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