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> Human Corrected Translations for 1 cent per word

"Per word" of the source language, or the target language? Sum of both? What about languages which have a different concept of "words" in written text (e.g. Chinese, Turkish, ...).

And by the way... "cent" of which currency? :)

Edit: I just saw that the list of supported languages does not contain languages with "exotic" types of word boundaries (yet).

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We are still trying to figure that out, there is no clear answer regarding how to base the pricing. Perhaps it should be based on words that were actually corrected? So for the time being we basing it only on source language words. For chinese, for example, we probably will do it based on characters, but ideas are welcome.

I think only pricing the source language makes sense. That way the consumer knows the cost going in and there's no incentive for you to provide more verbose translations.

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