Translators’ commandments #3 — You shall not work for peanuts

Translators' commandments

Translators’ commandments – never work for peanuts

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Translators’ commandments #2

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Translators’ nightmares — “The most dreaded deadline”

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How to recognize a translator at the bus stop

Translators and interpreters are into phonetics

How to recognize a translator/interpreter at the bus stop.


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Translators’ sayings

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Translators’ sayings

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This cartoon is inspired on Curri Barceló‘s excellent initiative on Twitter, encouraging tweets from translators about sayings adapted for translators in Spanish.

You can see all the tweets following this hashtag #dichosparatraductores (#translatorsayings in English).

You can follow Curri on Twitter at @currixan.

One of the sayings used in this cartoon, i.e. “Don’t count your TMs before they’re matched”, is by  @saulphil

You can see a more complete list with most of the tweets here.

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Translators’ nightmares — “A translator at the Tattoo Shop”

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Productivity for translators — CAT

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A translator with a cat on her lap

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Translator’s lifestyle — “sleep on it!”

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Translators’ nightmares: “Just this one tiny favor”

 

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A translator at a party

Translators, unite! Who else finds themselves enthusiastically dropping fun language facts to an increasingly bewildered audience at social gatherings? We just can’t keep all that amazing information to ourselves, can we? The trick is finding someone who loves hearing them as much as we love sharing!

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