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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
Local time: 19:57
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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N/A Jul 16

I have been accepting MTPE work from 3 clients. They all pay my rate, one by the hour, the others two by word. I could accept MTPE work from other clients when my pipeline is dry provided the rate is acceptable…

Joseph mwangi
 
Alex Lichanow
Alex Lichanow
Germany
Local time: 20:57
English to German
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MTPE 04:57

In my experience, most "MTPE" amounts to "batch-delete the slop, translate from scratch". This is why I do not deduct a single percent from my translation rate.

Matthieu Ledoré
Daryo
 


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