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Cristiana Coblis
Cristiana Coblis  Identity Verified
Romania
Local time: 16:38
Member (2004)
English to Romanian
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Feb 11, 2010

Thank you for this article. The math is surprising. Of the 1,8 million pages translated, 700.000 were translated by external contractors. That means that a page translated by external contractors costs on avarage 31.42 euro, while a page translated internally costs almost 110 euro... Very interesting))
 
Spencer Allman
Spencer Allman
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:38
Finnish to English
Feb 13, 2010

The citizens of the EU are entitled to access information in their own language. That costs money but it is money well spent. Those who adovate everything being in English (or French) for general consumption by non-native speakers are linguistically ignorant.

No?
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 14:38
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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Feb 12, 2010

Yes, Cristina, you are right, but as far as I know, most of the pages translated by external contractors are reviewed by the internal translators...
 
Franco Rigoni
Franco Rigoni  Identity Verified
Italy
Member (2006)
English to Italian
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Feb 15, 2010

I think 110 euros a page is too much. I would just use external translators and save money (probably we would have less taxes)!
 


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