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

[Marty Landman]

Could be that Awtar is an Oxford grad who could teach the rest of us 
a thing or two about proper English, and the goal was simply to get 
all this attention. Which he's done brilliantly I might add. :-)

Marty

At 02:54 PM 7/2/2014, Sam Moore 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 
><<mailto:asingh at quantum-coders.com>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 
>><<mailto:debi at linkstechnology.com>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: 
>>><mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org>consulting-bounces at drupal.org 
>>>  [<mailto: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: <mailto:consulting at drupal.org>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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>>>the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell
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