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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:
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    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...





    Congratulations, winners!
    The scheduled voting period ended earlier this week, and votes were tallied. Wherever a sufficient number of votes was received, results have been finalized. Congratulations to the winners!

    Meanwhile, voting has been reopened in pairs with fewer than ten voters. Please help close out the remaining pairs by voting.

    Portuguese (BR)
    22 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

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    Marco Monteiro André
    Portuguese (EU)
    14 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

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    Teresa Borges
    afrikandu
    5 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 4
    albāņu
    4 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 4
    arābu
    15 entries / 1 winner
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    Mohamed Gaafar
    bulgāru
    9 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

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    Andrei Vrabtchev
    dāņu
    6 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    ebreju
    4 entries / 1 winner
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    Doron Greenspan MITI
    franču
    34 entries / 1 winner
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    Christiane Lalonde
    galisiešu
    2 entries
    Feedback possible (too few entries to select a winner)
    grieķu
    8 entries / 1 winner
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    Dimitra Tsakiroglou
    gruzīnu
    1 entry
    Feedback possible (too few entries to select a winner)
    hindi
    11 entries / 6 finalists
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 5
    holandiešu
    13 entries / 1 winner
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    Mattijs Warbroek
    indonēziešu
    9 entries / 4 finalists
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 3
    itāļu
    52 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

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    rigrioli
    japāņu
    12 entries / 4 finalists
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 1
    javiešu
    1 entry
    Feedback possible (too few entries to select a winner)
    katalāņu
    3 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 1
    korejiešu
    4 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 8
    krievu
    55 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

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    Anna Katikhina
    maķedoniešu
    5 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 1
    moldāvu
    3 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 7
    norvēģu
    5 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 1
    pandžabu
    2 entries
    Feedback possible (too few entries to select a winner)
    papjamento
    1 entry
    Feedback possible (too few entries to select a winner)
    persiešu
    5 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 4
    poļu
    15 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

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    Jerzy Matwiejczuk
    rumāņu
    23 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

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    Maria Diaconu
    serbu
    8 entries / 2 winners
    Contest complete

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    Mark Daniels

    Sladjana Daniels
    slovāku
    3 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 6
    slovēņu
    2 entries
    Feedback possible (too few entries to select a winner)
    somu
    4 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

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    KatjaSan
    spāņu
    75 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

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    Paula Tizzano Fernández
    tagalu
    2 entries
    Feedback possible (too few entries to select a winner)
    taju
    2 entries
    Feedback possible (too few entries to select a winner)
    turku
    7 entries / 1 winner
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    Murad AWAD
    ukraiņu
    14 entries / 2 winners
    Contest complete

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    Alexander Onishko
    Marina Aleyeva
    ungāru
    9 entries / 2 winners
    Contest complete

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    Attila Piróth

    Katalin Horvath McClure
    vjetnamiešu
    9 entries / 4 finalists
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 3
    vācu
    41 entries / 2 winners
    Contest complete

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    Michael Schickenberg

    Bettina Röhricht
    zviedru
    13 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

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    Lena Käller
    čehu
    5 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

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    Dalibor Uhlik
    ķīniešu
    27 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winner!


    James_xia


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