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posted by [personal profile] awahlbom at 05:58pm on 15/03/2005 under
I have noticed — in myself and others — that there are few with a coarser language than professional translators and linguists. I don't know if this is a form of acquired Tourette's syndrome, but after a few years in this business every other word you say (among yourselves, of course — not to clients, unless things are catastrophically wrong, on the level of "our office burned to the ground and I alone escaped to tell thee") tends to be a permutation of "goddamn" or "fuck". Often in many languages, and/or interspersed with terminology of a highly technical nature.

This also applies to reading skills. At LocalEyes, we used to run an emergency AppleTalk file server on one of our G4 Cubes. It was called "Kuben" in the network — need I tell you Swedish speakers what I read instead when I got too tired, bored, and frustrated?
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posted by [identity profile] thette.livejournal.com at 05:11pm on 15/03/2005
I really shouldn't be giggling as much as I am right now.
 
posted by [identity profile] tuwr.livejournal.com at 06:49pm on 15/03/2005
I might be an exception. The last time I worked with professional translators, people started to make fun of me after I said something on the lines of "Oh dear. My computer crashed with the last two hours of work. Darn."
 
posted by [identity profile] jophan.livejournal.com at 01:49pm on 16/03/2005
I think my most used expletive was my often repeated exclamation "Jävla idioter!"
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posted by [personal profile] kjn at 08:05pm on 16/03/2005
Kablar!

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