Until now, I thought I was somewhat capable of the English language. But today I tried to translate a philosophy text for my husband, meaning it was English, but translated ancient greek from Heraclitus, Homer, Aristotle and Diogenes Laertius (about their different views of the term "psyche": soul). I really worked more than 3 hours on 8 pages of text. =_=
- Current Mood:
drained
Comments
If it makes you FEEL any better, the usual speed with which a professional translator translates pages of text is 1 hour/page (page = 30 lines of text with 70 characters max), sometimes less.
You are a terrible overachiever. :-P
I think it would have taken even more time if I wrote it down, but I only dictated it to my husband and he wrote it down. But, well. Looks like I'm still in time. :D