<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">It’s not terrible, it’s just not quite perfect (or “idiomatic” as we might say - another one you might enjoy looking up :-). <div><br><div>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.<div>The ambiguity is around just who is receiving the benefit - you or the customer? </div><div><br></div><div>This is why professional translators never translate into their second language, but always into their home language.</div><div><br></div><div>It’s quite subtle - don’t feel bad. Plus email pretty much sucks as a communication medium.</div><div><br></div><div>I must say though you certainly got some attention.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Jul 2, 2014, at 2:33 PM, Awtar Singh <<a href="mailto:asingh@quantum-coders.com">asingh@quantum-coders.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div>Guys -</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>Awtar singh<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jul 2, 2014, at 10:06 PM, Debi Easterday <<a href="mailto:debi@linkstechnology.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">debi@linkstechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">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!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: windowtext;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: windowtext;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:consulting-bounces@drupal.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">consulting-bounces@drupal.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:consulting-bounces@drupal.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">mailto:consulting-bounces@drupal.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Doug Johnson<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, July 02, 2014 11:31 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:consulting@drupal.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">consulting@drupal.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [consulting] Are you looking to hire dedicated Drupal Developers at lucrative hourly rate? (Awtar Singh - QC)<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">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"<o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">On 7/2/2014 9:56 AM, Anna Kalata wrote:<o:p></o:p></div></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">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...<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></div><div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1pt; padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dude, you really need to look up what "lucrative" means.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></blockquote><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Doug Johnson<br>Solution Visionary</span><o:p></o:p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>consulting mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:consulting@drupal.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">consulting@drupal.org</a></span><br><span><a href="https://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">https://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting</a></span><br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>consulting mailing list<br><a href="mailto:consulting@drupal.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">consulting@drupal.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">https://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>