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I charge $0.01/w, I have 3 years of experience, how much should I be charging?
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@Lefteris Jan 16

Lefteris Kritikakis wrote:
One day someone will ask "how come you guys all have the same job, title and work tasks you had 20 years ago, and how come you're hanging out here, a website well-known for low-price offers, if you already have such a wide and generous clientele as you often claim, and are so great in marketing?"

We don't hang around here for the job offers, but for the conviviality. And yes, some of us are eccentric (some of us suffer the delusion that sarcasm is the appropriate response to everything... others have weird font preferences). And many of us have incompatible personalities, which can sometimes lead to grating interaction. There are forum rules that require each of us to be polite, but they're not often enforced, so it's a bit of a wild west here. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the company.

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Samuel Murray
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@Ammar Jan 16

Ammar Naif wrote:
When it comes to translating Arabic, the output translation is almost always Modern Standard Arabic, which is the standard language for all Arab countries...

Long ago, I worked for a translation company that purchased Arabic translations. We also thought that there is a thing called modern standard Arabic, and that that is what one can expect to receive from Arabic translators who are asked to translate "into Arabic". But you know best: if you are confident that you can deliver modern standard Arabic, then that's good -- clients' proofreaders will praise your work, and in the end, you'll retain more clients.

Ammar Naif
 
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