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See original article and previous comments. To my TP colleague: a comment on complaints about low pricing and outsourcing to cheap destinations. A poster was very angry that Greek-English translations got outsourced to a very low paying and low time budget destination. Another further accused people doing this to be settling for Google Translate and later revision by an overzealous revisor. Well, someone will say that if a combination of Google Translate and eager revisor results in a usable translation what the hell? However, this combination usually fails. Unless the agencies spend less on the translator just to have the revisor re-translate. It will be a loss for the agency paying twice for the same job. If they continue to do it (which they surely do to warrant our complaints), it takes no magic to see they could be satisfied. The truth is that there are many young and hungry trainees out there, more eager to acquire experience than make money for now. If they ac...