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Poll: For what percentage of your life have you been professionally practicing translation? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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| Practise makes perfect | Sep 26, 2020 |
I think it was a practising architect who drew up plans for our extension with a partition wall halfway across a window...
I can just about stomach a one-man architectural practice, but I’m still struggling with the idea of a translation practice. Especially as even the lowliest brick outhouse designer creates something tangible and potentially life-changing, whereas all we do is repaint things a different colour.
So what do you design, Tom?
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Tom in London
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| Not domestic | Sep 26, 2020 |
Chris S wrote:
So what do you design, Tom?
Not domestic. Big stuff. With big teams of engineers etc. In various languages.
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Mervyn Henderson (X) 
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The yellow bit on the roof suggests a McDonald's sign, only with two Ms. Maybe they specialise in Double Macs? Rather sternly Stalinist, though. Could it be the Pyongyang McDonald's?
Only kidding. Which airport is that? Looks like it has a monorail shuttle, too.
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Tom in London
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Mervyn Henderson wrote:
Only kidding. Which airport is that?
It isn't an airport. It's something else. Here's another pic of that project
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Mervyn Henderson (X)
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... depot for washing, maintenance etc.
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Tom in London
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plus the control centre, which is full of people operating the system remotely, administrative offices, etc. The thing you thought was a McD sign is the roof over the outside terrace of the workers' canteen. So you were warm.
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Mervyn Henderson (X)
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Looks good to me!
I knew it wasn't the Pyongyang McD from the start. I don't think they have a McD there yet, although Mr Young 'Un apparently wanted it. Just for himself, likely as not.
[Edited at 2020-09-26 17:50 GMT]
[Edited at 2020-09-26 17:51 GMT]
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Tom in London wrote:
I love the way you’ve combined the neo-gothic with the rococo to create that quasi-brutalist twist.
You just need to watch out for Benny Hill switching the computer tapes I guess.
Why on earth you would want to give that up to fart around with idiot translation agencies I really don’t know...
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Tom in London
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| That's right - you don't | Sep 28, 2020 |
Chris S wrote:
Why on earth you would want to give that up to fart around with idiot translation agencies I really don’t know...
What you don't know is the elbowing, the low blows, the stress, the long, slow process (it takes years) of acquring a project, designing it, and getting it built.....it's much easier to sit at home and work online.
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Mervyn Henderson (X)
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| Below the belt | Sep 28, 2020 |
Is "acqure" an architectural term? Or is this one of those low blows you mentioned?
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| Your cruel sometimes | Sep 29, 2020 |
Mervyn Henderson wrote: Is "acqure" an architectural term? Or is this one of those low blows you mentioned?
Don’t low blows belong in the current poll thread?
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Tom in London
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What is a "cruel sometimes"? I didn't know Mervyn had one. Can I have one?
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Its just too easy sometimes
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Tom in London
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| WHat are those? | Sep 29, 2020 |
Chris S wrote:
Its just too easy sometimes
What are its? Give me an it.
Returning to the fascinating topic of "what percentage of your life have you been professionally practiSing translation?" I would say 72.23% (variable).
[Edited at 2020-09-29 07:39 GMT]
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Mervyn Henderson (X)
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That means you must have done a lot of architecture in the remaining percentage. I'm impressed, and I can see how stressful that must have been in a relatively short space of time. Was it all in Italy, and was it similar transport-related stuff, or other projects?
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