Ep 168: The Art of Translation
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Translators Are Not Crucial to Quality Translations
translators often feel that reviewers, and many people in the general public as well, don't really understand what they have done. The trick for if you live in india is actually to try to get published in the west as a translator. Because then the fees that you get are actually very handsome. In the uk. You get paid 90 pounds per thousand words. So let's see, if you were translating oin ibook of 50000 words, you're talking about four thousand 500 pounds. Four thousand five 500 pounds is almost four and a half, like rupies rit in india. That goes a long way. But i mean, i'lltel, i
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