Everyday Math for Translators
 An English-Chinese translator was asked by a friend about the  
  
word count  
ratio between the original English text and its Chinese translation.  The translator, being the math nerd he is supposed to be, by virtue of being a Chinese --  though using the same argument you can call a chicken duck, or a duck goose --  randomly selected five chapters from his recent translation, and her...
          
An English-Chinese translator was asked by a friend about the  
  
word count  
ratio between the original English text and its Chinese translation.  The translator, being the math nerd he is supposed to be, by virtue of being a Chinese --  though using the same argument you can call a chicken duck, or a duck goose --  randomly selected five chapters from his recent translation, and her...
 
  
  












