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I remember times when we only proofed the end result May 25, 2008

Samuel Murray wrote:

And since this is proofreading, it means you have to read the text in two languages, so multiply the word count by two. Can you read 18400 words in four hours?


In the past ten years proofreading has also become a euphemism for revising and editing. Nowadays we can either translate or proof a text, there's no step in between. I still make the old fashioned division between editing and proofing for the reason you name: do I have to read 1,000 or 2,000 words an hour? I'm thinking about adapting to the new situation.

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Gerard
 
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Ballpark figures May 26, 2008

When I was working with Professional Congress Organizers, they set assembly-line figures for revision at 1,200 words/hour. (This was pretty mechanical work. The revisor checks your translation against the original - 2 languages - presuming you passed initial personnel screening for a reasonable degree of accuracy).

I've done proofreading that varied from 800 to 1,600 words/hour (poor to good translations) but have never exceeded that... the poor translations were almost complete rew... See more
When I was working with Professional Congress Organizers, they set assembly-line figures for revision at 1,200 words/hour. (This was pretty mechanical work. The revisor checks your translation against the original - 2 languages - presuming you passed initial personnel screening for a reasonable degree of accuracy).

I've done proofreading that varied from 800 to 1,600 words/hour (poor to good translations) but have never exceeded that... the poor translations were almost complete rewrites. A quality check file increases the time spent.

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