Off topic: Three Symptoms of Translator's Dementia Thread poster: Jeff Whittaker
| Jeff Whittaker United States Local time: 14:52 Spanish to English + ... | neilmac Spain Local time: 20:52 Spanish to English + ...
Great blog, gave me my first laugh of the day! Thanks for sharing. | | |
How I laughed, good one, thanks, enjoyed it and how! Have a good day | | | Cetacea Switzerland Local time: 20:52 English to German + ...
It is a very well written blog, so yes, thanks for posting the link. But this has been going on for so long that I just can't laugh about it anymore. Maybe I'm suffering from True Translator's Depression... | |
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Nice article ! | Mar 4, 2014 |
Humorous and so true. Thanks for sharing ! | | | Tina Vonhof (X) Canada Local time: 12:52 Dutch to English + ...
It's funny but I didn't think it has much to do with dementia. Here is a symptom of true DT: you are searching your mind for a certain word and you can come up with the right word in two or three other languages but not in the one you need... | | | Nina Snoj Slovenia Spanish to Slovenian + ... | DZiW (X) Ukraine English to Russian + ...
Considering the symptomatology, the cardinal symptom of amentia (imbecility) is the very idea that modern translation is a self-sufficient profession, not heavily related to journalism, rewriting, transcreation, business, politics, psychology, and others, not just an add-on to the "field" sciences. As our professor used to say:There's no such thing as "just translation" !
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Elke Fehling Local time: 20:52 Member (2005) English to German + ...
Mmmh. The author seems to be affected too. Unfortunately not funny (anymore). | | | Tom in London United Kingdom Local time: 19:52 Member (2008) Italian to English
Joking about Dementia isn't funny. You may die of it one day. | | | DZiW (X) Ukraine English to Russian + ... Déformation professionnelle: Take it easy | Sep 30, 2018 |
Tom, everyone shall die of something one day for sure, yet it's more about "professional deformation" or "job distortion", just a bias. As one doctor said: "While the final cause of death is an impaired cardial function (cardiac arrest), it requires many factors to provoke the heart failure... Or a whim of Fate". | | | To report site rules violations or get help, contact a site moderator: You can also contact site staff by submitting a support request » Three Symptoms of Translator's Dementia Protemos translation business management system | Create your account in minutes, and start working! 3-month trial for agencies, and free for freelancers!
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