Friday, September 9, 2011

18 Obsessive compulsive grammar disorder

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Based on an idea by Jill R. Sommer, a full-time freelance German→English translator with an M.A. in German translation from Kent State University. Jill writes an amusing translation blog called Musings of an overworked translator where she vents about clients and the translation industry and occasionally posts humorous videos and texts.

18 comments:

  1. CecilieSeptember 9, 2011 at 9:20 AM

    Uhm, you spelled "exaggerating" wrong...

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  2. Alejandro Moreno-RamosSeptember 9, 2011 at 9:30 AM

    Cecilie, thanks for the correction. I changed it.

    I hate you now.

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  3. CarlaSeptember 9, 2011 at 9:38 AM

    Excellent! I am not alone in this world!! This blog is a HUGE relief for me.

    Alejandro, your reply to Cecilie is even funnier than the cartoon :)

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    1. AnonymousAugust 21, 2014 at 12:49 PM

      Carla, you posted just what I think..!! There are many People hating me for correcting them - but I learned living with this...

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  4. CecilieSeptember 9, 2011 at 9:45 AM

    I will wear your hate like a badge of honour. :-D

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  5. Mykhailo VoloshkoSeptember 9, 2011 at 11:10 AM

    Alejandro, the strip and your comment are hilarious!

    My browser underlined "hillarious", but I don't hate it :)

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  6. NathalieSeptember 9, 2011 at 12:29 PM

    Love it...

    I think my second name should be Moxie :-)

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  7. shivakumarSeptember 9, 2011 at 4:06 PM

    heheh this is really funny .. this guy with the disorder will do really well in a translation agency ..

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  8. bonnjillSeptember 9, 2011 at 4:58 PM

    LOL, another good example of the comments being just as good as the comic strip.

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  9. HelenaSeptember 10, 2011 at 12:44 PM

    Me siento taaaaaan identificada :-)

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  10. AnasSeptember 20, 2011 at 10:57 AM

    Funny ;) ))))
    http://www.egytranscript.net/translation_service.aspx

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  11. FrancescoSeptember 21, 2011 at 7:42 PM

    Fantastic!
    I thought it was just me...

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  12. Diana CoadaSeptember 22, 2011 at 12:19 PM

    It happens to all of us to one extent or another :) Keep up the good work, your strips always put a smile on my face!

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  13. Judy Jenner and Dagmar JennerSeptember 27, 2011 at 7:11 PM

    Too funny! We have to resist the temptation as well. Wow, so many great new cartoons on your blog; awesome! BTW -- Judy showed your cartoons during a conference in Atlanta (AAIT) last week and everyone loved them...no surprise there. :)

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  14. Korean TranslationSeptember 28, 2011 at 1:44 AM

    That's wonderful!
    Haha, call it an occupational disease! Yes, this job doesn't define me, but at least it's quite influential over me. Well, done sir!

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  15. CarolNovember 24, 2011 at 11:02 AM

    Ahaha, I've been there.

    Fortunately, I've learnt to correct other people's grammar and spelling in a very polite way. This custom even got me a new big client.

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  16. GenevièveJanuary 6, 2012 at 12:11 AM

    Another tic I have is, each time I buy a new household device, to read all the instructions in all the languages I know to track the translation mistakes. It is just stronger than me... I do it automatically.

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  17. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2017 at 6:38 PM

    i do not spell my name correct-I spell it phoenectically-not the normal way it is spelled and I have to do this-i have OCD anybody else do this

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