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Poll: When you're working, do you talk to your computer? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "When you're working, do you talk to your computer?".
This poll was originally submitted by DianeGM. View the poll results »
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DianeGM 
Local time: 04:36
Member (2006)
Dutch to English
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| Sometimes ... | Sep 27, 2014 |
A week ago I would have said 'no' but my kids who are witnesses tell an altogether different story ... so I'll go with 'sometimes'
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 03:36
Member (2009)
English to German
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When a script doesn't respond on a webpage, thus freezing everything or when there's a browser problem. All negative, I know, but such is life. On the funny side, my computer "knows" that I'm happy with its performance.
Have a happy, laughing weekend.
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Tim Drayton
Cyprus
Local time: 04:36
Turkish to English
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I do shout and swear at it sometimes if it apparently does something that I did not want it to do - i.e. if I inadvertently press the wrong key, and something unexpected happens on the screen.
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| Yes, sometimes | Sep 27, 2014 |
I don’t have speech recognition software but I do talk to my computer. I must confess that I have a disturbing tendency to talk to everything that doesn’t work the way I want, be it computer, printer, coffee machine, vacuum cleaner, you name it!
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Mark Hamlen
France
Local time: 03:36
French to English
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| Only to swear at it | Sep 27, 2014 |
As soon as I say "sh*t" the dog wakes up and leaves the room. Smart dog.
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This question made me laugh.
(I do sometimes, especially when things go really bad/well)
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I talk to myself. It's possible that the computer could overhear what I say.
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I first wanted to answer "no", but then I switched to "rarely" and from there eventually to "sometimes" because I remembered that when it is too slow or does things that I did not want to I do talk to "it". Unfortunately, this usually doesn't make it faster.
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Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 02:36
Member (2010)
French to English
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as others have said it's usually to shout at it when things are going wrong or plead with it to work properly. (and my dog must be thick because she doesn't leave the room:-))
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| It's OK to talk to your computer... | Sep 27, 2014 |
...unless you start answering to it.
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 03:36
Member (2009)
English to German
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Alexander Kupriyanchuk wrote: ...unless you start answering to it.
Well, I do that, too...on Skype.
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| And I'm not about to.... | Sep 27, 2014 |
....write down some of the things I have been known to say.
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| Yes ... and sometimes it answers ... | Sep 27, 2014 |
Yes, sometimes I tick it off with "Don't KEEP DOING THAT!" or something of the sort and occasionally it answers me in a bright and annoyingly cheerful tone "Your Avast virus database has been updated!"
Worrying, isn't it?
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Gudrun Maydorn (X)
Germany
Local time: 03:36
English to German
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Using speech recognition software
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