[consulting] Are you looking to hire dedicated Drupal Developers at lucrative hourly rate? (Awtar Singh - QC)

[Awtar Singh]

I appreciate all your inputs. I will have to rephrase some of my google ad copy too. :(

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 3, 2014, at 12:24 AM, Sam Moore <smoore at resonetrics.com> wrote:
> 
> It’s not terrible, it’s just not quite perfect (or “idiomatic” as we might say - another one you might enjoy looking up :-). 
> 
> Of course we all read a lot of marketing copy every day - ads, etc - and personally I’d expect to read something like “attractive hourly rate” instead.
> The ambiguity is around just who is receiving the benefit - you or the customer? 
> 
> This is why professional translators never translate into their second language, but always into their home language.
> 
> It’s quite subtle - don’t feel bad. Plus email pretty much sucks as a communication medium.
> 
> I must say though you certainly got some attention.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Sam Moore
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>> On Jul 2, 2014, at 2:33 PM, Awtar Singh <asingh at quantum-coders.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Guys -
>> 
>> I called it "lucrative hourly rate" because we wish to work with groups or people filled with work and it means "profitable hourly rate". Was it wrong?
>> 
>> Awtar singh
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Jul 2, 2014, at 10:06 PM, Debi Easterday <debi at linkstechnology.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thank you all for the bit of comic relief.  This is the best thread I’ve read in a while.  Hope you all enjoy your long weekend ahead!
>>>  
>>> From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Doug Johnson
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 11:31 AM
>>> To: consulting at drupal.org
>>> Subject: Re: [consulting] Are you looking to hire dedicated Drupal Developers at lucrative hourly rate? (Awtar Singh - QC)
>>>  
>>> It's possible he's just being VERY VERY honest.  "Yeah, like I am SO going to make a ton of money working with you"
>>> On 7/2/2014 9:56 AM, Anna Kalata wrote:
>>> I interpreted it to mean that it would be lucrative for the people who hire them, because they're cheap? Agreed, not the best use of vocabulary...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dude, you really need to look up what "lucrative" means.
>>> 
>>>  
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