Showing posts with label lakh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lakh. Show all posts

5/01/2014

The Indian miracle .. again

A job offer on an internet site says:
"1. Japanese to English 10 Lacks words, deadline is 7th May, 2014
We will pay for this job 0.11 EUR per word"

Note:
A lakh or lac (/ˈlæk/ or /ˈlɑːk/; abbreviated L) is a unit in the South Asian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand (100,000; Scientific notation: 105). In the Indian numbering system, it is written as 1,00,000. It is widely used both in official and other contexts in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. It is often used in Indian, Pakistani, and Sri Lankan English.

Well then, May 1 is already over and the people have 1 million words. If 200 words are considered one page = 5,000 pages
-> in 6 days (naturally; God too worked only on six days and rested on the seventh ...)
That will be only 830 pages a day.

"Piece of cake" comes to mind.

BUT ... if you can make it, you will earn 110,000 Euro = 152,739.29 USD in just one week.
So, jump to it!

3/20/2014

English ...

I don't know about you, but to me the following seems a little strange. Am I alone with this feeling?

"Hello friends i have japanese to eng projectof 3 lakh wrds the project is for 15 days so i need multiple translators who can translated atleast 3[HIDDEN] wrds per day..this is a big project so lowest proposal will be given prefrence ..please send me ur cv with per eng word on"

First of all, I had to look up "lakh" in the dictionary:
Definition of LAKH
1:  one hundred thousand <50 lakhs of rupees
2:  a great number
— lakh adjective
Origin of LAKH: Hindi & Urdu lākh / First Known Use: 1599

The all those irregular spellings ... could it be, that the author (a project manager at a big translation company) does not know? Do the translations done by that agency maybe look similar?

"wrds" - What exactly is gained by omitting a single character?
"i" - indicates the author is "humble" ??
"ur" - this change from "your" must also be of some strategic value I just fail to see ...


Maybe these people have been studying with Linus ...

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