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[Anonymous No.10582536]

Need some advice.
I live in a country where the avarage sale is $70. I'm a professional translator, and there are only two dictionaries from my native language to English. One of them is cheap, and it's awful, the other one is $300, and it's patrician, but no one can afford it. I can't even find it to make a copy.
It's by Routledge (Austalian publisher) and in Australia the financial standards and wages are much higher.
I really don't know what to do, I'm still a student but when a graduate and start professionally translating it'll be an issue.
I should also note that the author of the retarded dictionary made a deal with the librarians and some other influental people to hide the other dictionary and make it unapproachable for the majority of the population, so we would have no choice but to buy his dictionary. The majority doesn't even know the other dictionary exists.
It's looking grim.
Also, the dictionary is only sold online (Amazon, bookdepository etc.).

[Anonymous No.10582551]

Why the fuck do you need a paper dictionary? Im in translation studies and I never opened one of those. What is your language?

[Anonymous No.10582559]

>>10582551
There's no e-dictionary for my language (at least not a non-retarded one).
My language is Macedonian (two million population post-YU country).

[Anonymous No.10582564]

>this is the country that once ruled over the important parts of the world

really makes you think, huh

[Anonymous No.10582577]

>>10582559
Grab some Bulgarian-English dictionaries to aid you.

[Anonymous No.10582584]

>>10582536
perhaps commission an american with access to the book to copy it for you, maybe an independent publishing country might help, also! i had a thought, have you considered writing letters to various colleges? they may be of some assistance, and donate or provide some access to this work by a kind act. Make sure you're as pitiful as possible.

[Anonymous No.10582595]

>>10582536
also, you could find other translators who might band together with you to purchase this work so you can copy it. band together!

[Anonymous No.10582602]

>>10582536
>I live in a country where the avarage sale is $70. I'm a professional translator, and there are only two dictionaries from my native language to English. One of them is cheap, and it's awful, the other one is $300, and it's patrician, but no one can afford it. I can't even find it to make a copy.
It's on amazon in paperback for less than $50. If you're being a bitch about not getting the hardback, well, that's your bitchass problem.

[Anonymous No.10582605]

>>10582564
It really isn't. Ancient Macedonians were Greeks, modern "Macedonians" are Slavs.

[Anonymous No.10582619]

>>10582577
That would be nice if I understood more than 10% of the Bulgarian words.
>>10582584
I've thought about all of those options but I really don't know how to begin.
>>10582595
I've tried. Not a chance. Translators in my country are autistic, just like the rest of the people. That's why it came to this in the first place.
>>10582602
How do I know it is the exact same version? The ISBN is different. $50 is still too much for my country's standards, but if it is safe I'd purchase it.

[Anonymous No.10582623]

>>10582619
>How do I know it is the exact same version? The ISBN is different. $50 is still too much for my country's standards, but if it is safe I'd purchase it.
ISBN is different for paper and hardback. It refers to the specific edition as well, so if it's been updated, it gets a new ISBN for the 2nd edition, for the 3rd edition, and so on.
Pretty safe, you can check the ISBN against a catalogue.

[Anonymous No.10582631]

>>10582536
>I live in a country

He doesn't live in an anarchic workers paradise..

[Anonymous No.10582648]

>>10582631
I smell Americunt who would shit himself in the Balkans

[Anonymous No.10582656]

>>10582559
I dont know of any e-dictionary that would not be a retarded one. Its a little more work for the translator but its manageable

[Anonymous No.10582676]

>>10582605
and greece is still a shithole

[Anonymous No.10582681]

>>10582559
>>10582619
did you use to beat gypsies and did your mother hit you when you were little?

[Anonymous No.10582724]

>the other one is $300
>the author of the retarded dictionary made a deal with the librarians and some other influental people to hide the other dictionary and make it unapproachable for the majority of the population, so we would have no choice but to buy his dictionary
Kikes are like little babies, really

[Anonymous No.10583134]

>>10582619
>go about starting
just look up various professors who are experts in the fields related to your work, and explain to them your situation.

[Anonymous No.10583160]

>>10582559
>Macedonian
send cheap cigarettes to france pls

[Anonymous No.10583467]

>>10583160
Cheap to you, but to us it's more expensive than your cigarettes are to you. :)
Plus the quality is ebola.
By the way, send some dr peppers here, I've never even tasted it.

[Anonymous No.10583514]

>>10582536
http://www.beck-shop.de/Hill-Mircevska-Windle-Routledge-Macedonian-English-Dictionary/productview.aspx?product=16407917

37 euros

[Anonymous No.10583522]

>>10582536
and

http://b-ok.org/book/1096959/4d929f

websters. should be good enough

[Anonymous No.10583614]

>>10583522
You are not serious? This has 100 pages, the one I'm looking for has 700 plus the font is smaller.
>>10583514
Yes I found it on bookdepository for 37 euros. It's acceptable desu, if everything is ok. I'll try it.

[Anonymous No.10584543]

>>10582648
With the Mediterranean diet they'd probably shit themselves in public less frequently than usual.

[Anonymous No.10584563]

>>10582559
liberate them

[Anonymous No.10584585]

>>10582536
Order it through a local bookstore and then write a bad check

[Anonymous No.10584588]

>>10583467
Dr pepper fucking sucks, dude.

[Anonymous No.10584597]

>>10583467
>Dr. Pepper.
I hate to tell you anon, but its the shittiest soda

[Anonymous No.10584608]

>>10584588
>>10584597
its the thist-thirstiest time of the year