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Re: Translation question: words numbers in different languages?
Subject:Re: Translation question: words numbers in different languages? From:"Susan Hogarth" <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:04:47 -0400
On 7/16/07, Susan Hogarth <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> I have a doc we are going to have translated to French from English.
> The procurement people tell me that the translators charge .16-.17/per
> word of *French* (the 'to' language). My boss wants me to tell her how
> much the translation will cost. I have the number of words in English
> (1,500), but no way to estimate how many French words it would be. Is
> there an easy rule-of-thumb? The document is written for educated
> non-scientist types about health research.
Trying to Google this, I came up with this completely bizarre article:
I guess I knew there was some sort of confusion, but I thought it was
just me and poor memory. I haven't done much international stuff
before. This makes the A3/letter paper issue seem trivial by
comparison...
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