Just sent you an email guys, because when your motto is "Translations that don't suck." with the Eiffel tour in background, having such an awful French translation on your homepage is really not the best way to sell it imho.
The email, just in case you'd miss it:
Hello,
I'm French and a French teacher and I would like to warn you that the first part of your translation is good, but the end is totally awful, I can't find any other word, sorry.
I mean, if you're willing to charge $1 per translated word, you really cannot put this kind of translation as an example on your homepage...
I'm talking about the end of the sentence: "let's do it again" translated as "il faut recommencer".
If you say "il faut recommencer", it means "we have to do this again because it was bad". In French when you "recommence", it's because you've failed to do something properly, the exact opposite of what you're trying to say here.
A better translation would be "quand est-ce qu'on remet ça ?" or any kind of French idiom to convey the right meaning.
This is quite a bit more expensive than agencies I've worked with in the past, and those typically involve a translator + proofreader who are at least somewhat knowledgeable about the topic being translated, so the quality is pretty good.
I suppose some people will be happy to pay a premium for a quick turn around, but personally I care about the quality much more than the delivery time.
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Hello,
I'm French and a French teacher and I would like to warn you that the first part of your translation is good, but the end is totally awful, I can't find any other word, sorry.
I mean, if you're willing to charge $1 per translated word, you really cannot put this kind of translation as an example on your homepage...
I'm talking about the end of the sentence: "let's do it again" translated as "il faut recommencer".
If you say "il faut recommencer", it means "we have to do this again because it was bad". In French when you "recommence", it's because you've failed to do something properly, the exact opposite of what you're trying to say here.
A better translation would be "quand est-ce qu'on remet ça ?" or any kind of French idiom to convey the right meaning.
That's it, have a good one,
$10 - 50 words or less
$50 - 200 words or less
$100 - 400 words or less
I suppose some people will be happy to pay a premium for a quick turn around, but personally I care about the quality much more than the delivery time.
But if I split it up in to 50 word blocks I can get 500 words translated for $100.