Off topic: Three Symptoms of Translator's Dementia Автор темы: Jeff Whittaker
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| | neilmac
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Great blog, gave me my first laugh of the day! Thanks for sharing.
| | | | Josephine Cassar 
Мальта
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How I laughed, good one, thanks, enjoyed it and how! Have a good day
| | | | Cetacea
Швейцария
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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)
Канада
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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
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| DZiW (X)
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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" !
[Edited at 2018-09-29 03:35 GMT]
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Elke Fehling
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Mmmh. The author seems to be affected too. Unfortunately not funny (anymore).
| | | | Tom in London
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Joking about Dementia isn't funny. You may die of it one day.
| | | | DZiW (X)
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| 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".
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