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Jeff Whittaker
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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
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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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Grand Mar 4, 2014

How I laughed, good one, thanks, enjoyed it and how! Have a good day
 
Cetacea
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Zvicër
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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
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Nice article ! Mar 4, 2014

Humorous and so true. Thanks for sharing !
 
Tina Vonhof (X)
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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
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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)
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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
Mbretëria e Bashkuar
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Dementia Sep 29, 2018

Joking about Dementia isn't funny. You may die of it one day.
 
DZiW (X)
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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