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I want to thank everyone (and there were 20 of you!) who responded with
information about estimating translation costs. I gave you very little
information, and yet you all came through with some very thorough advice
and many angles from which to approach the project. Posing a question
to this list is like pushing a button and the information comes spewing
out like a winning slot machine! I have learned more about translation
issues in the last eight hours than I'm sure I could ever gather from my
blind web searches or Tulsa Yellow Pages.
And special thanks to B. Harrison who was very helpful in providing info
about the local translation companies.