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Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | no more ....

Xanthippe — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:21:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: Xanthippe
Post title: no more ....

I used do to it when I was 20 .... now, I only read !

but ... I don't read novels :oops:

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | NOnononono

megane_wang — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:09:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: megane_wang
Post title: NOnononono

While reading a novel...

... I'm just reading and -most of the time- enjoying a novel :)

I must say I usually translate technical texts ;)

Ruth @ MW

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | Yes

Lisa Roberts — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:43:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: Lisa Roberts
Post title: Yes

I think some people are perhaps taking the question a bit too literally. For me personally, reading is escapism, and whilst I draw the line at actually having a pen and paper at my side each time I read something - be it a novel, magazine, or whatever - I do occasionally make a note of any words that I think are nice or any particularly elegant phrases. And it in no way hinders my enjoyment of whatever I may be reading.

[Edited at 2008-08-05 11:48]

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | Depends on the novel

Marinus Vesseur — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:21:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: Marinus Vesseur
Post title: Depends on the novel

If I'm reading Terry Pratchett, I'm just having a laugh, if I'm reading Kurt Vonnegut, some of the intensely distilled and fine-tuned lines of his become slogans on my monitor or fridge for a while. After I've read, re-read and savoured them, they end up in the bin.

But I'm not physically collecting lines or phrases, simply because I'm not the type. If I like the book, I buy it, hoping to read it again sometime.

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | No

Αlban SHPΑTΑ — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:26:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: Αlban SHPΑTΑ
Post title: No

When I read a book, I just try to enjoy it without stopping to take notes.

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | Fiction (novel) or nonfiction .....

humbird — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:36:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: humbird
Post title: Fiction (novel) or nonfiction .....

Are you talking just novels?
Then I don't qualify to answer this poll (so I didn't).

I occassionally underline some passages which hit my code.
No, no time for jotting down anything, especially reading novels. Besides, I am a non-fiction fan and will stay that way.

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | Yes!

Ludmilla3 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:26:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: Ludmilla3
Post title: Yes!

Yes! I like to buy the cheap kind of publishing of the book. Then I feel free to underline the phrases which I like.

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | welcome to the club "reading just for

Erzsébet Ráczné Czopyk — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:51:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: Erzsébet Ráczné Czopyk
Post title: welcome to the club "reading just for

[quote]Mara Ballarini wrote:

[quote]Sheila Wilson wrote:

How can you really get into a novel, and enjoy it at its maximum, if you're forever getting out a pencil and jotting things down? [/quote]

I'm with you Sheila. You can't really get into a novel if you keep stopping to write things down. I remember at high school when I started reading novels in a foreign language and my knowledge of the foreign language was so poor I had to stop so many times to look up words in a dictionary...couldn't stand it! [/quote]

...may I join to you or establish a club "reading just for ..."?

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | Not novels

Fernando D. Walker — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:15:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: Fernando D. Walker
Post title: Not novels

I can't do it. I would like to do it, but I really can't. If I did it, I would feel very bad. The only books that I can underline are those that I use for studying. In that case, I don't feel so bad :).
Regards,
Fernando

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | When I read, I read and enjoy reading

Mara Ballarini — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:18:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: Mara Ballarini
Post title: When I read, I read and enjoy reading

[quote]Sheila Wilson wrote:

How can you really get into a novel, and enjoy it at its maximum, if you're forever getting out a pencil and jotting things down? [/quote]

I'm with you Sheila. You can't really get into a novel if you keep stopping to write things down. I remember at high school when I started reading novels in a foreign language and my knowledge of the foreign language was so poor I had to stop so many times to look up words in a dictionary...couldn't stand it! If something particularly caught my eye, then I make a mental note to go back to the part and jot down whatever I was interested in, and if I forget, well, there'll be another opportunity..

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | Never

Henry Hinds — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:58:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: Henry Hinds
Post title: Never

I would not wish to plagiarize anyone. I don't make any notes, I just internalize things so then they may come back in a slightly different reincarnation when I need them.

That is not from novels, it is from work I translate, and I don't get to translate any novels.

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | All the time!

S_Angel (X) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:30:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: S_Angel (X)
Post title: All the time!

Yes, it's one of the things I enjoy the most about reading. I have a notebook with my favourite sentences too, and it's one of the most precious things I own... reading it from time to time is simply priceless.

[quote]Though instead of jotting them down in a notebook/notepad, I underline them (in lead pencil only) and jot down notes regarding the quote on the margins of the book itself. An offense that I've been told many times over that is worthy of capital punishment (or close)[/quote]

Lots of famous writers did that and now we read their comments along with the original works: if they were allowed to do it, why not us? ;)

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | When I read, I read, and read, and I don't do anything else

Sheila Wilson — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:28:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: Sheila Wilson
Post title: When I read, I read, and read, and I don't do anything else

How can you really get into a novel, and enjoy it at its maximum, if you're forever getting out a pencil and jotting things down?

Do you stop mid-sentence or end-sentence, or do you wait until the end of the paragraph? If I tried to do the former, I'd never get full satisfaction from the book. The latter would be quite impossible, as by the time I got to the end of the paragraph, I'd have forgotton what I meant to do.

My husband would second that - often I say "I'll be with you when I get to the end of the paragraph / page." Half an hour later he says "have you finished the paragraph / page yet?" Of course, he knows that I've probably started the next chapter!

I do note words and expressions, but I believe that if I can't remember them later then they probably weren't very important. The main things I note are Americanisms (I'm British) and French slang, but they never get written down - the reading machine can't stop for anything!

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | heh

Andrea Riffo — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:11:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: Andrea Riffo
Post title: heh

[quote]Heidi C wrote:

I must confess I also dog ear pages to mark where I am... Please don't kill me!!! :) :) [/quote]

Now THAT is worthy of capital punishment! :lol::lol::lol:

(I use my business card as bookmarker, which serves a double purpose: I don't dog-ear my books and, since I always carry a book around with me, I always have a business card at hand in case I need it)

Greetings :)

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | Another "book mutilator"...

Heidi C — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:44:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: Heidi C
Post title: Another "book mutilator"...

[quote]Andrea Riffo wrote:

Though instead of jotting them down in a notebook/notepad, I underline them (in lead pencil only) and jot down notes regarding the quote on the margins of the book itself. An offense that I've been told many times over that is worthy of capital punishment (or close) :P

Greetings!

Andrea [/quote]

This is exactly what I do.
If not, I end up with little pieces of paper all over the place, which I end up throwing away.

And this way, I always know where to find my annotations! (Now I also write down a sort of index at the end of the book with page numbers...)

I must confess I also dog ear pages to mark where I am... Please don't kill me!!! :) :)

[Edited at 2008-08-04 16:44]

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | notebooks

maria skiba — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:03:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: maria skiba
Post title: notebooks

Yes, I keep a notebook (or 2) too, with lots of little phrases, even words that I 'might' use one day. I have actually managed to use some of this in my work and it is not only inspiration (Claudia, your example does give goosbumps!)
but I think it also develops our creativity with the language, any language....
:)

maria

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | YES!

Andrea Riffo — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:00:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: Andrea Riffo
Post title: YES!

Though instead of jotting them down in a notebook/notepad, I underline them (in lead pencil only) and jot down notes regarding the quote on the margins of the book itself. An offense that I've been told many times over that is worthy of capital punishment (or close) :P

Greetings!

Andrea

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | The aquarium

Claudia Alvis — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:50:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: Claudia Alvis
Post title: The aquarium

I keep notebooks with all sorts of annotations, including my favorite lines or sentences from the books I love. One of the segments that completely blew my mind--and made me adore him even more, was written by the great late Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated by the great Richard Howard: the [i]aquarium[/i]. I'm not gonna write it down (because I'm lazy), but I took a screen-shot of the paragraph:

[img] [url removed] [/img]

I've read it so many times and it still gives me goosebumps.

[Edited at 2008-08-04 15:51]

[Edited at 2008-08-04 16:46]

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | two favourites

jacana54 (X) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:12:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: jacana54 (X)
Post title: two favourites

"listened on tiptoe" (Conrad, Heart of Darkness)

"el tábano de la soledad" (Sepúlveda, Un viejo que leía novelas de amor). Explanation: this kind of insect bite is painful rather than itchy

I'd love to see other people's examples.

:-)

Lucía

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like? | I think that the poll should also contain an option:

Rajan Chopra — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:18:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: Rajan Chopra
Post title: I think that the poll should also contain an option:

I don't read any novel.

Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?

ProZ.com Staff — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:13:51 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: While reading a novel, do you jot down the phrases you like?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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