If you translate for a living, you've probably heard this...

[alexpgp]

From a client e-mail, received a few minutes prior to COB one day (from a printout on its way to the shredder):

Attached is a RUSH translation request, along with the document to be translated. I have noted on the request that the document be translated with extreme accuracy. Although the deadline we've requested is tight, the translator needs to take the time he/she needs to make this accurate.

The requested deadline would have made the Roadrunner™ blush. E-mails such as this are almost as good as stand-up comedy.

Cheers...

Comments

[brenk.livejournal.com]

Love it. And sooooooooo common.

"Whaddya mean you can't do 'accurate, researched and polished' and produce it before tomorrow morning so we can go home and sleep, safe in the knowledge we've got some poor sucker to work all night? And you want *extra* for dropping everything you're already working on to do so?"