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What is "Text Control" Rate per Hour?
Initiator des Themas: Nizeyimana Fabrice
Nizeyimana Fabrice
Nizeyimana Fabrice
Ruanda
Local time: 23:48
Englisch > Kinyarwanda
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Sep 3, 2020

Hello!

My outsourcer asked me my "text control" rate per hour in the target language and I am unable to comprehend what that means.

Thank you.
 
Thayenga
Thayenga  Identity Verified
Deutschland
Local time: 23:48
Mitglied (2009)
Englisch > Deutsch
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Text control Sep 4, 2020

Your client simply wants to know your rate for proofreading and editing.

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Xenia Fernandez
Geetesh Singh
 
Agneta Pallinder
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Vereinigtes Königreich
Local time: 22:48
Mitglied (2014)
Schwedisch > Englisch
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Rate per hour Sep 5, 2020

Your rate per hour should be the same whatever the job.
 
Samuel Murray
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Niederlande
Local time: 23:48
Mitglied (2006)
Englisch > Afrikaans
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@Nizeyimana Sep 5, 2020

Nizeyimana Fabrice wrote:
My outsourcer asked me my "text control" rate per hour in the target language...


I suggest you ask them directly. My initial assumption would be that this is either ordinary editing (without reference to the source text) or DTP checking (i.e. checking that the target text looks good and is not truncated anywhere).

Agneta Pallinder wrote:
Your rate per hour should be the same whatever the job.


Some types of tasks are more tiresome, however, and we don't include the period of recuperation in the period that we charge for.

expressisverbis
Philip Lees
 
Nizeyimana Fabrice
Nizeyimana Fabrice
Ruanda
Local time: 23:48
Englisch > Kinyarwanda
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@Thayenga Sep 5, 2020

Thayenga wrote:

Your client simply wants to know your rate for proofreading and editing.


Thank you. I did inquire and was explained that it is my overall rate per hour.
 
expressisverbis
expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 22:48
Mitglied (2015)
Englisch > Portugiesisch
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Controlled language? Sep 5, 2020

I agree with Samuel, it would be safer to ask your client.
It can be your rates for post-editing or technical writing tasks/jobs.
If you use a controlled language for writing technical texts (for ex., user manuals) this material will be better translated.
One of the many examples of controlled language in technical writing (in my native language) would be avoiding the passive voice.
 


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What is "Text Control" Rate per Hour?







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