Poll: Do you find the texts you translate interesting?
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Noni Gilbert Riley
Noni Gilbert Riley
Spain
Local time: 08:12
Spanish to English
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Magpie Jan 26, 2007

You have to be a total intellectual magpie to enjoy this activity! Sometimes pushing it to get a buzz out of translating endless tables, but there's always something there to catch your attention! Cheers everyone, Noni

 
Parrot
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Spain
Local time: 08:12
Spanish to English
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Slight change of species Jan 26, 2007

aceavila wrote:

You have to be a total intellectual magpie to enjoy this activity! Sometimes pushing it to get a buzz out of translating endless tables, but there's always something there to catch your attention! Cheers everyone, Noni


but no prob


 
Alfredo Tutino
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Local time: 08:12
English to Italian
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usually... Jan 26, 2007

but I'd rather word it as:

I usually can find something interesting in what I translate.


 
Ikram Mahyuddin
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Indonesia
Local time: 13:12
English to Indonesian
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Like reading Jan 26, 2007

I like reading so why I am not interested in reading things that I must translate?

 
Hendarto Setiadi
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Indonesia
Local time: 13:12
English to Indonesian
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Usually Jan 26, 2007

75% of my projects are literary translations - very interesting, but not paying so well. The remaining 25% are pragmatic texts - no that interesting, but paying rather nicely. I am trying to get the best of both worlds

Ciao,
Hendarto


 


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