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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:
     Engels 
      Spaans  
      Duits  
      Frans  



    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.

    Afrikaans
    5 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 4
    Albanees
    4 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 4
    Arabisch
    15 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winner!


    Mohamed Gaafar
    Bulgaars
    9 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winner!

    Andrei Vrabtchev
    Catalaans
    3 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 1
    Chinees
    27 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winner!


    James_xia
    Deens
    6 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Duits
    41 entries / 2 winners
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winners!


    Michael Schickenberg

    Bettina Röhricht
    Farsi (Perzisch)
    5 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 4
    Fins
    4 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winner!


    KatjaSan
    Frans
    34 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winner!


    Christiane Lalonde
    Galicisch
    2 entries
    Feedback possible (too few entries to select a winner)
    Georgisch
    1 entry
    Feedback possible (too few entries to select a winner)
    Grieks
    8 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winner!


    Dimitra Tsakiroglou
    Hebreeuws
    4 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winner!


    Doron Greenspan MITI
    Hindi
    11 entries / 6 finalists
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 5
    Hongaars
    9 entries / 2 winners
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winners!


    Attila Piróth

    Katalin Horvath McClure
    Indonesisch
    9 entries / 4 finalists
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 3
    Italiaans
    52 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winner!

    rigrioli
    Japans
    12 entries / 4 finalists
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 1
    Javaans
    1 entry
    Feedback possible (too few entries to select a winner)
    Koreaans
    4 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 8
    Macedonisch
    5 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 1
    Moldavisch
    3 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 7
    Nederlands
    13 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winner!


    Mattijs Warbroek
    Noors
    5 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 1
    Oekraïens
    14 entries / 2 winners
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winners!


    Alexander Onishko
    Marina Aleyeva
    Papiamento
    1 entry
    Feedback possible (too few entries to select a winner)
    Pools
    15 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winner!


    Jerzy Matwiejczuk
    Portuguese (BR)
    22 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winner!


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

    Congratulations to the winner!


    Teresa Borges
    Punjabi
    2 entries
    Feedback possible (too few entries to select a winner)
    Roemeens
    23 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winner!


    Maria Diaconu
    Russisch
    55 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winner!


    Anna Katikhina
    Servisch
    8 entries / 2 winners
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winners!


    Mark Daniels

    Sladjana Daniels
    Sloveens
    2 entries
    Feedback possible (too few entries to select a winner)
    Slowaaks
    3 entries
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 6
    Spaans
    75 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winner!


    Paula Tizzano Fernández
    Tagalog
    2 entries
    Feedback possible (too few entries to select a winner)
    Thai
    2 entries
    Feedback possible (too few entries to select a winner)
    Tsjechisch
    5 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winner!


    Dalibor Uhlik
    Turks
    7 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winner!


    Murad AWAD
    Vietnamees
    9 entries / 4 finalists
    Finals round (voting) underway
    Additional voters needed to determine winner: 3
    Zweeds
    13 entries / 1 winner
    Contest complete

    Congratulations to the winner!

    Lena Käller


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