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Mini-contest 2012: "Yogi Berra Quotes"

Preparing
Submission phase  
Sep 27 '12 – Oct 12 '12
Hybrid phase  
Oct 17 '12 – Oct 26 '12
Finals phase  
Oct 29 '12 – Nov 12 '12
Finished
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About the Submission phase

During the Submission phase, entries may be submitted in any language pair, per contest restrictions. Contestants are allowed to edit their entries until the end of the Submission phase.

At the end of the Submission phase, all language pairs with submitted entries will be "paused" for review by the contest administrator.

About the Hybrid phase

During the Hybrid phase, individual language pairs can be placed in any of the Submission, Qualification, or Finals phases, depending on how many entries have been submitted.
  • Pairs which received fewer than 3 entries during the Submission phase will likely be placed in an "extended submission" period. If at least 3 entries are eventually submitted, the pair will be moved forward to the Finals phase.
  • Pairs which received between 3 and 7 entries will likely be placed directly into the Finals phase, where site users who list that language pair in their profile may vote for what they feel are the best entries.
  • Pairs which received more than 7 entries will likely be placed into the Qualification phase, where site users rate and tag entries in an effort to determine a smaller pool of entries which should move forward into the Finals phase.

About the Finals phase

During the Finals phase, all language pairs which have received at least 3 entries will be open for site users to vote for what they feel are the best entries. Pairs with fewer than 3 entries will not be able to have a winner determined.

At the end of the Finals phase, votes will be tallied by site staff, and winners in each pair will be announced.
Competition in this edition of ProZ.com translation contests is finished. Winners have been announced in 32 language pairs. Click here to view the winners »

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Source text

The following are the source texts for this edition of the ProZ.com translation contests. Contest participants are given the opportunity to submit translations of these texts into the languages of their choice. If three or more translators translate a text into a given language, the contest is "on" in that language pair. To learn more about the source texts, see the "About the source text" section below.
– Quotes from Yogi Berra, U.S. hall-of-fame baseball player
- "I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous."

- "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

- "You can observe a lot just by watchin'."

- "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

- "I can't concentrate when I'm thinking."

- "The future ain't what it used to be."

- "I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."

- "We're lost, but we're making good time."

- "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."

- "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."

- "It's like deja-vu, all over again."

- "It ain't over till it's over."

- Mrs. Lindsay: "You certainly look cool." Yogi Berra: "Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself."

- "If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be."
Translations submitted (64 pairs)
Afrikaans (5)
Albanian (3)
Arabic (14)
Armenian (11)
Belarusian (7)
Bengali (7)
Bosnian (7)
Bulgarian (9)
Catalan (10)
Chinese (8)
Creoles & Pidgins (French-based Other) (4)
Croatian (12)
Czech (4)
Danish (5)
Dutch (15)
Esperanto (4)
Estonian (8)
Finnish (10)
French (44)
Friulian (3)
Galician (3)
Georgian (5)
German (34)
Greek (7)
Gujarati (5)
Hebrew (6)
Hindi (8)
Hungarian (5)
Icelandic (5)
Indonesian (5)
Italian (41)
Japanese (8)
Javanese (3)
Korean (3)
Lao (3)
Latin (1)
Latvian (3)
Luxembourgish (1)
Macedonian (5)
Malay (6)
Maltese (2)
Marathi (7)
Norwegian (Bokmal) (3)
Persian (Farsi) (7)
Polish (8)
Portuguese (BR) (19)
Portuguese (EU) (9)
Romanian (13)
Russian (29)
Serbian (18)
Simple English (1)
Slovak (5)
Slovenian (6)
Spanish (57)
Swahili (6)
Swedish (9)
Tagalog (13)
Tamil (4)
Telugu (6)
Thai (17)
Turkish (11)
Ukrainian (8)
Urdu (4)
Vietnamese (3)

About the source text

The source texts for ProZ.com translation contests are typically selected by ProZ.com members with a goal of providing interesting and challenging material that enables top translators to show their talent.

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