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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:
     anglais 
      russe  
      italien  
      catalan  



    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
    afrikaans
    5 entries
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    albanais
    4 entries
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    allemand
    41 entries / 2 winners
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    Michael Schickenberg

    Bettina Röhricht
    arabe
    15 entries / 1 winner
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    Mohamed Gaafar
    bulgare
    9 entries / 1 winner
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    Andrei Vrabtchev
    catalan
    3 entries
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    chinois
    27 entries / 1 winner
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    James_xia
    coréen
    4 entries
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    danois
    6 entries
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    espagnol
    75 entries / 1 winner
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    Paula Tizzano Fernández
    farsi (persan)
    5 entries
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    finnois
    4 entries / 1 winner
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    KatjaSan
    français
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    Christiane Lalonde
    galicien
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    grec
    8 entries / 1 winner
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    Dimitra Tsakiroglou
    géorgien
    1 entry
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    hindi
    11 entries / 6 finalists
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    hongrois
    9 entries / 2 winners
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    Attila Piróth

    Katalin Horvath McClure
    hébreu
    4 entries / 1 winner
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    Doron Greenspan MITI
    indonésien
    9 entries / 4 finalists
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    italien
    52 entries / 1 winner
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    rigrioli
    japonais
    12 entries / 4 finalists
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    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 2
    javanais
    1 entry
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    macédonien
    5 entries
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    moldave
    3 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
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    norvégien
    5 entries
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    néerlandais
    13 entries / 1 winner
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    Mattijs Warbroek
    panjabi
    2 entries
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    papiamento
    1 entry
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    polonais
    15 entries / 1 winner
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    Jerzy Matwiejczuk
    roumain
    23 entries / 1 winner
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    Maria Diaconu
    russe
    55 entries / 1 winner
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    Anna Katikhina
    serbe
    8 entries / 2 winners
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    Mark Daniels

    Sladjana Daniels
    slovaque
    3 entries
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    slovène
    2 entries
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    suédois
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    Lena Käller
    tagalog
    2 entries
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    tchèque
    5 entries / 1 winner
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    Dalibor Uhlik
    thaï/siamois
    2 entries
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    turc
    7 entries / 1 winner
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    Murad AWAD
    ukrainien
    14 entries / 2 winners
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    Alexander Onishko
    Marina Aleyeva
    vietnamien
    9 entries / 4 finalists
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 4


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