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Topic: Good to know a foreign language
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alex
translatortips staff Posts: 462
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 21 August 2002 12:31
  
I found this on another forum  Mommy mouse is leading her three young ones through the field.
Suddenly, the birds stop chirping and everything becomes very
quiet. Mommy looks around, sees the shadow of a cat just ahead... Mommy rears her head back and lets loose with a very loud... "ARF, ARF, ARF!" Hearing this, the cat scurries away from what it fears is a large
dog. Mommy turns to the young ones and says... "See, it is always good to know a foreign language." 
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Apollo
Expert Posts: 278
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 21 August 2002 16:41
Well, it's often said in the translation world that if you pay peanuts you get monkeys, so....  ------------------
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alex
translatortips staff Posts: 462
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 21 August 2002 18:37
quote:
Originally posted by deufrang:
Makes me wonder what the going rate for that language pair might be ....
Bird to dog? Not less than 80 worms per 1000 woofs. Of course, you could get it done cheep  (pun intended), but it wouldn't be a quality product 
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