Gained In Translation: Metaverse Interpretation A Big Biz?

While dancing in a Second Life pub, someone casually told Peter Stinberg that she was interested in expanding her business into the larger SL community where English is not the primary language.  (Of the top ten nations where Second Life is most popular, according to last May's demographics, Germany, Japan, France, Brazil, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands fit under that rubric.)  With that inspiration (and a real life background in marketing and foreign communications), Stinberg launched Babel Translations, now a year old, and currently charging L$6 L$2-4 per translated word.  By his count, the firm grosses six figures from hundreds of assignments taken by his 50 person staff.  Those numbers surprise me, though I suppose they shouldn't; with such a global community, there must be a large market for the service.  In fact, reports Stinberg, they recently bought out a competitor.

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[Vint Falken]

And actually, he can do furniture too! =)
Yeey! for Peter

[Peter Stindberg]

Thanks for the kind mentioning, Hamlet. One correction however: proofreading starts as low as 2L$/word, all major languages are at 3L$/word and only a few languages at 4L$/word.

Would it be too much to ask that you correct it in the main article text?

[Hamlet Au]

Sure, Peter, sorry I misread that.

[armil at proofreading and editing]

This world of the information highway needs the services of proofreaders and editors even more.
Keep up the spirit and march on.

[Dissertation Editing]

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