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Poll: Has professional translating/editing ruined how you read for pleasure?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 11:28
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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No Jul 4

I tend to read books in the languages I master...

WolfgangS
Michele Fauble
Michael Newton
 
Christine Andersen
Christine Andersen  Identity Verified
Denmark
Local time: 12:28
Member (2003)
Danish to English
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No Jul 4

Proofreading in an earlier job made reading almost impossible!

Way back, when patents and newspapers were still printed on linotypes, I worked for a couple of years at a printer´s as a proofreader, or strictly a proofreader´s assistant, called a copyholder.

At the end of the day, I simply could not read a newspaper or anything else without checking the headings and noting whether all the commas were correct, marking ´bad breaks´, and looking out for ´widows and orp... See more
Proofreading in an earlier job made reading almost impossible!

Way back, when patents and newspapers were still printed on linotypes, I worked for a couple of years at a printer´s as a proofreader, or strictly a proofreader´s assistant, called a copyholder.

At the end of the day, I simply could not read a newspaper or anything else without checking the headings and noting whether all the commas were correct, marking ´bad breaks´, and looking out for ´widows and orphans´. And then I could not remember what the text actually about!

Luckily, when I moved on to train as a librarian, I could soon read normally again. ▲ Collapse
 
Michael Newton
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United States
Local time: 06:28
Japanese to English
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Read for pleasure Jul 5

My wife reads Borges in English. I read Borges in Spanish. We discuss Borges in Japanese. I am also reading a monograph on Feofan Grek, a Russian icon-painter.

Maria Laura Curzi
 
Jennifer Levey
Jennifer Levey  Identity Verified
Chile
Local time: 06:28
Spanish to English
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I don't read 'for pleasure' ... Jul 5

... and I never did.
 


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