Translation rates
Margo Rosen
msr2003 at COLUMBIA.EDU
Mon Dec 2 15:42:37 UTC 2013
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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