Friday, July 13, 2012

20 Metamorphosis of a too-busy translator

metamorphosis when spending too much time at the computer
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Based on an idea by Jacqui Birnie. Jacqui has an BA Hons degree in German and has worked as a translator since 1977(!). She works mainly with technical subjects such as mechanical, electrical, electronic engineering and patents.

20 comments:

  1. Going through one of those right now, without the beard though...
    Alma

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    1. Taking into account your name, that's kind of reassuring

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  2. I understand it now, all Twilight characters are translators!!! The only difference is that some are older than others :)

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  3. Ohhhhhhhhhhh - is that why everyone keeps complaining about my hair whenever I leave the house?? Hee hee! I don't toy with the day-star :)

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  4. I have the fear of light problem after only 3 days... Maybe my metamorphosis is the other way around?

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  5. Hehe very good. There may still be a fourth stage: mummy with stiff joints and a very poor sense of humour. Keep up the great work your strips are great fun.

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  6. yeah, this one is good :))). there could also be something about wearing the same clothes - no time to turn on the washing machine :)

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  7. Five overloaded years, I did became a vampire (without the beard fortunately)! Worked non-stop for three days, and I didn't even noticed that my partner locked me inside when he left for a business trip (some people still have to go outside, that is real weird)!

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  8. This is good :) Just had a haircut (finally) after 5 months of letting my hair grow. My husband then said, "You FINALLY look like the woman I married" :)

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  9. Hehe, no time to cook+go to the store... what does he keep Lena for? :D

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  10. Excellent! My fiance calls me a cavewoman. :) Glad to see I'm not alone.

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  11. Stage 4: ME FORGORT TO TYPED. MST SUYRVIVE ONE... MORE... COFFEE.

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  12. I do mangage to go to the hair dresser every 6 months, but I am actually up to the stage that I have to take in vitamin D supplements.

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  13. Oh, too funny! Dear fellow translators: take just five minutes to visit the great outdoors once in a while, it's good for you! Or walk the dog! :) We need our friends and colleagues to be happy and healthy. Try this good solution: client dinners. You must thus get presentable and you will get to eat, and you can write it off. Win/win.

    Seriously, this is hilarious, but it hasn't actually happened to us (yet). Off to the three-hour ordeal at the hairdresser's now, actually.

    @Estelle: I can't believe you got locked in and didn't notice. That's quite a story indeed.

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  15. This one is just great!!! Keep up the good work, Alejandro! I wonder how you manage to have the time to create all these hilarious strips??

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  16. Great! Thanks, Alejandro, I had a good laugh at that:)

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  17. hahaha suas tiras me lembram muito as do De(ath)sign

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