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

[Sam Moore]

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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