Can you imagine telling a solicitor you are thinking of instructing – after having learned his hourly rate – that you can get the same service at a third of the price elsewhere? That’s not very likely, is it? Why not?  For several reasons: If you have a legal problem, you don’t want to engage just anybody, you want a person with the requisite skills and experience; moreover, you want somebody you can trust, which has very little to do with money. Why is it, then, that professional translators constantly have to put up with objections like the above after having submitted a quote? Is not translation also a professional skill and a matter of trust? After all, the documents to be translated are very often of a highly…