On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 01:33:46AM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > They are *always* : > - translated by person who know very little about language he translates to > ( translator have to know language he translate from only, this can be > easily > fixed by allowing everyone to change a book )
Wrong. Most translators translate to their native language. > - paid by page (both author and translator, remember paid by line of code > programers ?) Not necessarily. I know (and have been involved in) projects where the pay was a fixed sum regardless of how long the project took or how many pages the result took. (Well, the projects I have been involved in were nonfiction but nevertheless...) -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% "" (John Cage)
