Clara Gomez and Marcelo Bellizzi wrote:
Text in Portuguese:
O Valor de lançamento somente será válido para o pagamento do sinal efetivado até o dia 03/12/12 após essa data será aplicada a tabela da data da quitação do sinal.
"Valor de lançamento" is the amount entered on accounting records. Therefore a timely payment made will be entered as the same amount appearing on the corresponding notice, while a late payment will include any penalties for the delay.
"será aplicada a tabela da data da quitação" is poorly written. From a PT-PT standpoint, this is going too far beyond PT-BR in leaving things implied, rather than stating them explicitly. Either "a tabela será aplicada para a data da quitação" or "o índice/fator da tabela será aplicado para a data da quitação" should do.
Clara Gomez and Marcelo Bellizzi wrote:
Translated text:
The POSTING amount shall only be valid for the down payment effected until 12/03/2012; after this date, the table of the down payment's settlement date shall be considered.
If we take what is actually meant here, a possible option would be:
The amount payable/due shown (on the notification? agreement?) shall be valid only if the down payment is made by 12/03/12; thereafter the down payment table (index? factor?) for the actual payment date shall be applied.
I hope this is not another job like the one I'm doing right now... a possibly 20+ pages agreement crammed into just one! All in 4-pt Arial, single-spaced lines. They apparently felt so sure that nobody would be able to read it without a good magnifying glass (yet OCR worked!), that typos and missing words abound. People tend to get careless when they know that nobody will be watching.
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