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halukaka@tercumex.com.tr - 30 May 2009 07:22 GMT

Hello Everyone,

I am an English to Turkish translator in Turkey (native speaker of
Turkish). I’ve been translating for quite some years now; and although
I prefer translating in to my native language only I often have to
translate in to English because of Turkey’s legislation (only Turks
are allowed as certified translators so if it needs to be certified,
it needs to be translated by a Turk).

Anyway I am seeking cooperation with someone, a native speaker of
English language (contemporary and international) capable of reviewing
academic documents at postgraduate level, who will accept to review
some of my translations and pinpoint my mistakes (which should be
plenty) as well as odd-wording/expressions I think I use often and
provide me a list of common mistakes and corrections, recommendations,
at a fair rate if necessary.

Please bear in mind that texts I will have you review are not paid
jobs (at least not anymore) and you’ll be reviewing them solely for
helping me get better –not for immediate profit.

I’ll appreciate any response;

Thanks & Kind Regards,
Haluk

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Don Phillipson - 30 May 2009 14:21 GMT

> Anyway I am seeking cooperation with someone, a native speaker of
> English language (contemporary and international) capable of reviewing
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> I’ll appreciate any response;

This may be an unreasonable request, because no one can
know beforehand whether there will be one error per page or
an error in every line.

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Leslie Danks - 30 May 2009 15:13 GMT

> <halukaka@tercumex.com.tr> wrote in message

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>> Anyway I am seeking cooperation with someone, a native speaker of
>> English language (contemporary and international) capable of reviewing
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> know beforehand whether there will be one error per page or
> an error in every line.

Plus, you need someone who knows enough Turkish to check for differences
in meaning between the translation and the original.

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halukaka@tercumex.com.tr - 30 May 2009 20:38 GMT

> > <haluk...@tercumex.com.tr> wrote in message
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Actually no I don't. Perhaps I couldn't make myself clear with my
request. I want to have checked the readibility of my texts. I don't
want someone to check the translation. Anyhow, I think I'd better seek
help from an editor. Thanks anyway.

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Leslie Danks - 30 May 2009 21:10 GMT

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>> Plus, you need someone who knows enough Turkish to check for
>> differences in meaning between the translation and the original.

> Actually no I don't. Perhaps I couldn't make myself clear with my
> request. I want to have checked the readibility of my texts. I don't
> want someone to check the translation. Anyhow, I think I'd better seek
> help from an editor. Thanks anyway.

Sorry if my comment sounded a bit rude--it wasn't intended to be.
Translating into any language other than one's mother tongue is generally
considered inadvisable and I have seen enough strange things over the
years to make me concur with this opinion. But only you can decide how
much and what sort of checking you want.

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Les (BrE)

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Django Cat - 31 May 2009 16:29 GMT

On 30 May, 08:22, haluk...@tercumex.com.tr wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
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> Thanks & Kind Regards,
> Haluk

Haluk, I have just spent almost all day sitting in a hotel room in
Italy, basically doing what you're looking for. For this I charge
10GBP for 1000 words. The headache I've now developed is one more
reason for me to be wondering about dropping work of this kind as it
just isn't worth it for the money. I wish you all good luck in your
search for someone to help you.

DC

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Paul Wolff - 31 May 2009 20:31 GMT

>On 30 May, 08:22, haluk...@tercumex.com.tr wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
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>reason for me to be wondering about dropping work of this kind as it
>just isn't worth it for the money.

I'd say you are right in that. When I need first class specialist
written translations, with both legal and technical validity, I am
charged, usually, somewhere between GBP 10 and 20 per 100 words. If the
work is important enough to justify a second-level edit, and you're
doing that by polishing up someone else's work at GBP10 per 1000 words,
that's between 5% and 10% of the final cost (in my terms). I'd say the
check-and-polish stage is worth more than that, proportionately, given
that the first translator isn't up to the complete job.

Of course, I may have utterly misunderstood what you are doing...

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Leslie Danks - 31 May 2009 20:43 GMT

> On 30 May, 08:22, haluk...@tercumex.com.tr wrote:

[...]

>> Anyway I am seeking cooperation with someone, a native speaker of
>> English language (contemporary and international) capable of reviewing
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>> provide me a list of common mistakes and corrections, recommendations,
>> at a fair rate if necessary.

[...]

> Haluk, I have just spent almost all day sitting in a hotel room in
> Italy, basically doing what you're looking for. For this I charge
> 10GBP for 1000 words. The headache I've now developed is one more
> reason for me to be wondering about dropping work of this kind as it
> just isn't worth it for the money.

AOL. After agreeing, in my days of innocence, to "check that the commas
are all in the right place" in translated texts that sometimes turned out
to be completely incomprehensible, I imposed my own modus operandi: "I
get the translation and the original and I then give you a quotation for
the correction". Fortunately I am now in a position to refuse such jobs
if I want to. I believe there are people who enjoy that kind of activity;
I ain't one of 'em.

> I wish you all good luck in your
> search for someone to help you.
>
> DC

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Jerry Friedman - 31 May 2009 18:46 GMT

On May 30, 12:22 am, haluk...@tercumex.com.tr wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
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> I’ll appreciate any response;

You could try participating in the discussions here and asking about
specific expressions. People will probably correct your English at
times, especially if you indicate (maybe in your signature) that you
want them to do so.

--
Jerry Friedman

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