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9th ProZ.com Translation Contest

Contest theme: "Business"

Submission
7-19 Sep '09
Phase 2 *
20-27 Sep '09
Final round voting *
28 Sep - 10 Oct '09
Winners have been determined in 42 pairs.

  • Finals round voting is underway in 63 pairs.


  • Source texts:
     أنجليزي 



    From "Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son" by George Horace Lorimer.

    I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought, but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.

    A businessman's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are:

    Have something to say.

    Say it.

    Stop talking.

    Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands...





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    Portuguese (BR)
    22 entries / 1 winner
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    Marco Monteiro André
    Portuguese (EU)
    14 entries / 1 winner
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    Teresa Borges
    أفيقاني
    5 entries
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    ألباني
    4 entries
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    ألماني
    41 entries / 2 winners
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    Michael Schickenberg

    Bettina Röhricht
    أندونوسي
    9 entries / 4 finalists
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    إسباني
    75 entries / 1 winner
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    Paula Tizzano Fernández
    إيطالي
    52 entries / 1 winner
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    rigrioli
    اوكراني
    14 entries / 2 winners
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    Alexander Onishko
    Marina Aleyeva
    بابيامينتوي
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    بلغاري
    9 entries / 1 winner
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    Andrei Vrabtchev
    بنجابي
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    بولندي
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    Jerzy Matwiejczuk
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    تايلندي
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    تركي
    7 entries / 1 winner
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    Murad AWAD
    تشيكي
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    Dalibor Uhlik
    جافانيزي
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    جيورجي
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    دانماركي
    6 entries
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    روسي
    55 entries / 1 winner
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    Anna Katikhina
    روماني
    23 entries / 1 winner
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    Maria Diaconu
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    سويدي
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    Lena Käller
    صربي
    8 entries / 2 winners
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    Mark Daniels

    Sladjana Daniels
    صيني
    27 entries / 1 winner
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    James_xia
    عبري
    4 entries / 1 winner
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    Doron Greenspan MITI
    عربي
    15 entries / 1 winner
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    Mohamed Gaafar
    غالياني
    2 entries
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    فارسي
    5 entries
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    فرنسي
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    Christiane Lalonde
    فنلندي
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    KatjaSan
    فيتنامي
    9 entries / 4 finalists
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    كاتالاني
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    كوري
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    ماسيدوني
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    مجري
    9 entries / 2 winners
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    Attila Piróth

    Katalin Horvath McClure
    مولدافي
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    نرويجي
    5 entries
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    هندي
    11 entries / 6 finalists
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    هولندي
    13 entries / 1 winner
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    Mattijs Warbroek
    ياباني
    12 entries / 4 finalists
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    يوناني
    8 entries / 1 winner
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    Dimitra Tsakiroglou


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    It was fun to translate [the contest source text] because it presents a certain idea or principle in many different ways (and words) and thereby reveals whether the translator has full command of his/her target language.
     Anna Haxen
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