Poll: Choose your motto: Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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| | Julian Holmes 
Japan
Local time: 19:54
Member (2011)
Japanese to English
Translation means many things to me. How about 'A combination of some or most of the above'?
| | | | | Translation is... | May 17, 2014 |
... an art, a science, a hobby, a way to earn money, and, depending on the assignment, can be boring/ tiring.
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I’m with Julian: most of the above. Translation is my passion as well as my job. It can be stressful, nerve-racking, tiring, discouraging at times, even boring, but it’s constantly challenging and stimulating.
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 12:54
Spanish to English
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| Translation is... | May 17, 2014 |
... keeping me busy today. Too busy to think about this random selection of preferences. Let's just say "all of the above" - and then some.
| | | | | Translation is a craft | May 17, 2014 |
It will always require skilled craftspeople to do it properly, no matter how close machines can be developed to wing it.
A bilingual person is someone capable of expressing their own ideas in two different languages; while a people to do it properly, no matter how close machines can be developed to wing it.
A bilingual person is someone capable of expressing their own ideas in two different languages; while a translator is an individual trained and skilled in expressing faithfully and accurately someone else's ideas in a language different from the one in which these ideas were originally issued. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Translatiion is definitely an art, even technical translation. | May 17, 2014 |
It may also be someone's passion in addition to that, which is the case with many serious translators. It is definitely not a craft or a science.
| | | | Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 12:54
Member (2009)
English to German
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LilianBNekipelo wrote:
It may also be someone's passion in addition to that, which is the case with many serious translators. It is definitely not a craft or a science.
I couldn't have phrased it any better.
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| Still a craft | May 17, 2014 |
LilianBNekipelo wrote:
It may also be someone's passion in addition to that, which is the case with many serious translators. It is definitely not a craft or a science.
IMHO it does take science, art, and passion (to blend science and art together), however using some definitions from MW, it is a craft.
From MW:
skill in planning, making, or executing : dexterity
Check. A translation must sound, feel, and look like text originally written in the target language. Otherwise it will be (as I unfortunately see quite often) "text in the source language written using target language words". This is what MT relies on to exist.
From MW (a few words omitted - not relevant here):
an occupation or trade requiring artistic skill ~the craft of writing plays~
Check. Artistic skill in devising an appealing/compelling text, albeit no longer in its original language.
From MW:
skill in deceiving to gain an end
Check. Deceiving readers into believing that the translation was intentionally written for them, in their language, and by one of their language peers.
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Laurens Sipahelut wrote:
... an art, a science, a hobby, a way to earn money, and, depending on the assignment, can be boring/ tiring.
Translation is all of the possible answers given.
Most of the time it is only the good ones, but unfortunately the boring/tiring answer is sometimes true when you have to take on an assignment that is just that. Some texts can literally put you to sleep.
| | | | Mario Chavez (X)
Local time: 06:54
English to Spanish
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| About mottoes | May 17, 2014 |
Why do I need a motto?
To some of my colleagues, translation is a passion, a craft, a science with a sprinkle of salt, an art, just a job to pay the bills, or a combination of many things.
But, why do we need a motto?
What's next? Choose a brand?
Slow Saturday for some, I guess...
| | | | Sheila Wilson
Spain
Local time: 11:54
Member (2007)
English
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| This says it for me | May 17, 2014 |
José Henrique Lamensdorf wrote:
Artistic skill in devising an appealing/compelling text, albeit no longer in its original language.
I find passion a bit strong. I will no doubt do some pro bono translation if/when I retire, but I don't think I'll ever be inclined to take any old passage out of today's Le Monde and translate it into English, so I don't think it rates as a passion really for me.
It's marketing-type material that I'm passionate about, whether translating it from French or just polishing English textx. Sometimes the French texts I get to translate are really uninspired, with lots of repetitive adjectives etc. I'm really happy when I can hand in a translation into English that's so much more appealing. One of many reasons why I'd never give Trados-style discounts for repetitions or fuzzy matches .
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Helen Hagon
Local time: 11:54
Member (2011)
Russian to English
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| Translation is in my blood | May 17, 2014 |
I don't know why, but from the day I started learning French at school, I have always had a bizarre need to translate anything I see in a foreign language. I can't read a book in foreign language without scribbling translation ideas in the margin, and I experience a peculiar sense of frustration when I see something in a language I don't know. Even ingredients on food packaging or instructions for flat-pack furniture are a source of fascination, which my family find highly amusing. It took a whi... See more I don't know why, but from the day I started learning French at school, I have always had a bizarre need to translate anything I see in a foreign language. I can't read a book in foreign language without scribbling translation ideas in the margin, and I experience a peculiar sense of frustration when I see something in a language I don't know. Even ingredients on food packaging or instructions for flat-pack furniture are a source of fascination, which my family find highly amusing. It took a while, but I eventually decided the best way to deal with this was to make it my job. ▲ Collapse
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It depends on assignment a lot.
Sometimes translation can be something completely surprising, for example, translation could be a public benefit or saving life, or something else.
Translation could be my passion when I feel it is an integral part of a great mission, like saving life and biodiversity on the Earth, promoting peace/preventing war, providing with equal opportunities for all people, etc. global aims for a better world.
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