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Feb 15th 2011, 10:25 am
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Hi all, the company I rent offices from wants an instruction booklet (word doc) translating from English to Italian. 97,000 words 587 pages.
Anyone out there need a bit of work.....
Anyone out there need a bit of work.....
Feb 15th 2011, 12:00 pm
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Thats 97,000 English words, 587 pages in English. This translates to 1,345,200 Italian words and 5348 pages in Italian! When do you need it ready?
Feb 15th 2011, 12:07 pm
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Feb 15th 2011, 2:15 pm
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Could you also please ask them what the instruction booklet is about. It might be some obscure bit of machinery or something that none of us know anything about.
Feb 15th 2011, 2:20 pm
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I have scanned read some of the pages and it is an instruction booklet for a CNC Machine. Computer controlled Lathe.
But the doc is not very technical. I suppose the easiest way to explain it is to say it is like a car manual.. what the switches do not how to take the engine to pieces. If any one is interested I can forward the doc for them to have a look at..
Feb 15th 2011, 2:27 pm
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Hi. Ordinarily I might have been interested, but I'm pretty tied up with school at the mo, though that won't last forever.
I hate instruction manuals though. I don't suppose you know if this manual is going worldwide of if it's just for in office use by the Italians who bought a CNC machine and can't follow the instructions because nobody in the office knows English.
It's a helluva lot easier to write a "quick guide" for in house usage.
I hate instruction manuals though. I don't suppose you know if this manual is going worldwide of if it's just for in office use by the Italians who bought a CNC machine and can't follow the instructions because nobody in the office knows English.
It's a helluva lot easier to write a "quick guide" for in house usage.
Feb 15th 2011, 2:34 pm
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Hi. Ordinarily I might have been interested, but I'm pretty tied up with school at the mo, though that won't last forever.
I hate instruction manuals though. I don't suppose you know if this manual is going worldwide of if it's just for in office use by the Italians who bought a CNC machine and can't follow the instructions because nobody in the office knows English.
It's a helluva lot easier to write a "quick guide" for in house usage.
I hate instruction manuals though. I don't suppose you know if this manual is going worldwide of if it's just for in office use by the Italians who bought a CNC machine and can't follow the instructions because nobody in the office knows English.
It's a helluva lot easier to write a "quick guide" for in house usage.
The company sell the machines in Italy so it will be sent with each new machine
. There is one thing I did notice and that is the original document has grammatical errors nothing huge but I think this has been translated from maybe chinese into english first. The Machine comes from Taiwan...
Feb 15th 2011, 3:01 pm
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That sounds typical.
Most of the things we have bought recently have had a crappy English translation. This never bothers OH coz he'd rather ignore both the Italian and English and fiddle around with the damn machine for ages trying to input info.
Ocasionally he has given up on a certain part and left it for another day. It has given me great pleasure to go to him later and say "ta da !!!! I did it - I did it."
When he asks how did I manage it when he didn't .. I just tell him I looked at the manual like any sensible person would.
I hope this company have money. That's a lot of pages to translate.
Most of the things we have bought recently have had a crappy English translation. This never bothers OH coz he'd rather ignore both the Italian and English and fiddle around with the damn machine for ages trying to input info.
Ocasionally he has given up on a certain part and left it for another day. It has given me great pleasure to go to him later and say "ta da !!!! I did it - I did it."
When he asks how did I manage it when he didn't .. I just tell him I looked at the manual like any sensible person would.
I hope this company have money. That's a lot of pages to translate.
Feb 15th 2011, 3:10 pm
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That sounds typical.
Most of the things we have bought recently have had a crappy English translation. This never bothers OH coz he'd rather ignore both the Italian and English and fiddle around with the damn machine for ages trying to input info.
Ocasionally he has given up on a certain part and left it for another day. It has given me great pleasure to go to him later and say "ta da !!!! I did it - I did it."
When he asks how did I manage it when he didn't .. I just tell him I looked at the manual like any sensible person would.
I hope this company have money. That's a lot of pages to translate.
Most of the things we have bought recently have had a crappy English translation. This never bothers OH coz he'd rather ignore both the Italian and English and fiddle around with the damn machine for ages trying to input info.
Ocasionally he has given up on a certain part and left it for another day. It has given me great pleasure to go to him later and say "ta da !!!! I did it - I did it."
When he asks how did I manage it when he didn't .. I just tell him I looked at the manual like any sensible person would.
I hope this company have money. That's a lot of pages to translate.
My OH refused to tell me how to program the unit. She said learn Italian!!!! So I tweek the odd button when she is out if I am cold and then get shouted at... Or refuse to go downstairs to adjust it when we are in bed.
How much do you think this will cost him??? Guestimate..
Feb 15th 2011, 3:22 pm
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Average price is 25 euro per word doc page. This means Times New Roman standard size. Full page of writing without big gaps for diagrams, photos etc. It does include larger text titles and space between paragraphs.
I'm guessing that the 587 pages of printed booklet are not A4 size as this would come to a lot more than 97,000 words.
I'm guessing that the 587 pages of printed booklet are not A4 size as this would come to a lot more than 97,000 words.
Feb 15th 2011, 3:33 pm
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Average price is 25 euro per word doc page. This means Times New Roman standard size. Full page of writing without big gaps for diagrams, photos etc. It does include larger text titles and space between paragraphs.
I'm guessing that the 587 pages of printed booklet are not A4 size as this would come to a lot more than 97,000 words.
I'm guessing that the 587 pages of printed booklet are not A4 size as this would come to a lot more than 97,000 words.
Lot of money eh!!
Gosh I just halved the pages to take into account the diagrams and its loads of money
Feb 15th 2011, 3:36 pm
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He needs 'authorised translations' though and I can't do those despite what he might say.....
Feb 15th 2011, 3:39 pm
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this is one reason why one of my students is hassling me to translate things for him from Italian into English (I can go that way just not the other way -and it depends how technical it is) He needs 'authorised translations' though and I can't do those despite what he might say.....
He needs 'authorised translations' though and I can't do those despite what he might say.....
Feb 15th 2011, 3:42 pm
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