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03-22-2019, 06:47 PM
ah, cool! i've always liked administrative work when i've done it in the past, but i've definitely found the only policy for me with it is to never take calls when i'm at home unless it's been discussed beforehand at work. it doesn't help that i have a phone phobia too sdfgdf. i can get over it when i have a script, like when i'm calling to collect payments or answering questions and taking reservations over the phone, but freeform phone conversations really shake me.
translation is my dream!! i'm really hoping i can get a job doing it, i could be happy my entire life doing that honestly. or at least for many years.
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03-23-2019, 06:08 AM
Ugh I hate phone calls too. I'm just glad my current job doesn't currently have me phoning clients and stuff. (I'm sure I'll eventually have to do it, but for now not yet ) At my last few jobs one of the things I hated the most was hearing the phone go off. I feel as though my blood pressure immediately skyrocket whenever I hear the phone ring. At my current job all the phone calls I get are from the manager, most of the time.
Yay for having the passion! According to the translation agency I applied to a couple months ago, translating takes a lot of passion to do.
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03-23-2019, 08:57 PM
that is good! i've worked 2 office jobs and one of them was like all phone calls all the time, the other one was almost always just people asking for my boss lmao.
makes sense! languages are a lot of work.
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03-24-2019, 04:41 PM
yeah, that's one of my favorite things about it solving the puzzle, bending the words so that even if it's not a direct translation, the meaning is able to get through... it can be very artistic, if you approach it the right way. the hardest thing for me right now is learning colloquial speech and idioms; those are the hardest to translate.
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03-25-2019, 08:58 AM
Colloquials and idioms, ugh. Yeah, those are a pain to translate. It's sometimes hard keeping true to the source, I try to keep it as close to the original meaning as possible, but phrased in a different way, and the translation agency I applied to still said it was off the mark and not sticking to the original wording enough.
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03-25-2019, 10:48 PM
interesting! i'm hoping i'll be able to learn the way people expect things to be translated in my translation classes... because i can do word-for-word, but it won't capture the emotion or tone correctly. :/
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03-26-2019, 07:49 AM
Yeah, that's what's so hard about translation...sometimes things just gets lost in translation despite our best attempts. I can nearly always tell when a book has been translated from English to Chinese because of how awkward the phrases are or how the way it's written made it clear it wouldn't be the way native speakers would say it.
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03-26-2019, 04:04 PM
yeah, yeah totally! ugh and like when i was reading Les Miserables... you know there were so many subtleties in Victor Hugo's writing that just completely got lost. that's why i'm waiting until i'm Spanish literate to read the Spanish versions of translated books that are originally in Spanish sdjfgdfs. I tried reading Don Quixote once and i was just like :// mmmmm not yet. i'm really hoping i'll be able to be the type of translator where it's harder to tell, but it all depends on my boss i'm sure.
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03-30-2019, 03:31 PM
oh TOTALLY!! i don't read as much manga or watch anime as i used to, but i used to dream so much of being able to read it in the original Japanese.
thanks, i hope so too! and i hope i'm able to even find a job hahah.
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03-31-2019, 10:21 PM
oh that's really cool! which manhua have you been reading?
truuuuue. thank you, that means a lot hahah! i'll cite you as a reference.
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04-01-2019, 01:47 AM
I have no idea what their names in English are, as I read them in Chinese.
One is about a plain-looking girl who learns the magic of make up and becomes pretty and I guess is a sort of slice-of-life type of story, one is a series of mostly horror or horror-related short stories, and one is about a bullied 'loser' who one day suddenly woke up in a 'perfect' body (but his old body is still there, he can just switch between them whenever he falls asleep in one of them)
I used to read one that had werewolves or something in it but I stopped reading it years ago and pretty much forgot what it's about...I also used to read one called The Gamer (I think it's a pretty popular series, saw references of it on a couple of other sites) but I stopped reading that one a while ago too...
lol Thank you I guess
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04-22-2019, 07:37 PM
which makin' faces is your favorite, ghostie? rank them most to least, please
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04-24-2019, 06:24 PM
1. Pullin' Moar Faces -FAVORITE
2. Makin' Better Faces
3. Makin' moar faces!
also hiiiii hummmyyyyyyyyy i missed you!!
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04-24-2019, 11:44 PM
hiya sweetipea, I missed you too <3
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04-26-2019, 04:31 PM
how have you been?
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04-29-2019, 07:04 AM
I've been yes keeping my head above water. How about you?
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05-03-2019, 10:03 PM
same! school's been incredibly busy and dissatisfying this semester. :/ but it's almost break!!! only one group project, 2 tests, and an easy essay thing left.
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06-29-2019, 04:16 PM
please check your inventory for pullin' moar faces contribution item!
RAKster pressie <3
I can't figure out how to get the image supposed from my cell phone... So I just gave up
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06-30-2019, 02:52 AM
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06-30-2019, 03:04 PM
I can't wait to see all of the amazing avatars you make with it, ghostie <3
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07-01-2019, 10:38 PM
i already found two uses for it in this avi!!! it's my FAVORITE one of all the makin' faces set, i've been wanting to make my characters blush and breath ghosts for YEARS. hummy, you are my savior ToT
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