Translation rates

[Margo Rosen]

My figure is for English, and is ballpark rather than stringent.  
Thanks for the useful data, Paul.

Quoting "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM>:

> Margo Rosen wrote:
>
>> 6,000 characters counting spaces is more or less equivalent to 1,000
>> words, in my experience. Hope that helps.
>
> Source or target?
>
> In my experience, English is about six characters per word, Russian
> about seven.
>
> By the same token, an English translation generally contains more words
> than the Russian source, unless heavily edited for conciseness. So it's
> important when quoting to specify source or target; prevents
> misunderstandings.

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