Off topic: Three Symptoms of Translator's Dementia
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Jeff Whittaker
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Amerika Syarikat
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Mar 4, 2014

http://patenttranslator.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/three-more-symptoms-of-translators-dementia-dementia-translatoris-td/

Edited to add: This is Steve Vitek's blog, not mine, since people always seem to assume that the poster is the author.

[Edited at 2014-03-04 03:48 GMT]


Fernando Javier Navarro Manrique
 
neilmac
neilmac
Sepanyol
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Must click Mar 4, 2014

Great blog, gave me my first laugh of the day! Thanks for sharing.

 
Josephine Cassar
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Malta
Local time: 16:09
Ahli (2012)
Bahasa Inggeris hingga Bahasa Maltese
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Grand Mar 4, 2014

How I laughed, good one, thanks, enjoyed it and how! Have a good day

 
Cetacea
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Switzerland
Local time: 16:09
Bahasa Inggeris hingga Bahasa Jerman
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Not funny Mar 4, 2014

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...

 
Sebastian Abbo
Sebastian Abbo
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Nice article ! Mar 4, 2014

Humorous and so true. Thanks for sharing !

 
Tina Vonhof (X)
Tina Vonhof (X)
Kanada
Local time: 08:09
Bahasa Belanda hingga Bahasa Inggeris
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True TD Mar 4, 2014

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...

Christine Andersen
 
Nina Snoj
Nina Snoj
Slovenia
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For what it's worth... Sep 25, 2018

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/news/2018-05-15/bilingual-brains-are-more-resilient-dementia-cause-alzheimers-disease

 
DZiW (X)
DZiW (X)
Ukraine
Bahasa Inggeris hingga Bahasa Rusia
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démenti Sep 29, 2018

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]


 
Elke Fehling
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TD Sep 29, 2018

Mmmh. The author seems to be affected too. Unfortunately not funny (anymore).

Tom in London
 
Tom in London
Tom in London
United Kingdom
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Ahli (2008)
Bahasa Itali hingga Bahasa Inggeris
Dementia Sep 29, 2018

Joking about Dementia isn't funny. You may die of it one day.

 
DZiW (X)
DZiW (X)
Ukraine
Bahasa Inggeris hingga Bahasa Rusia
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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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