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Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work? | Any kind of quality reading...

Mario Chavez (X) — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 17:28:00 +0000

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Topic: Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work?
Poster: Mario Chavez (X)
Post title: Any kind of quality reading...

...helps with my work-related translation.

I'm not reading any books right now as my mind is working through a jetlag (came back from a 3-week trip to Portugal, and the 5-hour difference is still there).

So, I'm reading bits from BusinessWeek and an old The Economist issue (I don't know where I got it!).

Some translation professors (one of them was my thesis proposal examiner) don't think that reading in one genre (say, fiction prose) can affect one's style or way of translating in another genre. They even ridicule it. The old guard are so cute when they're so rigid!

:D

Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work? | I read it in August

Franco Rigoni — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 15:00:00 +0000

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Topic: Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work?
Poster: Franco Rigoni
Post title: I read it in August

[quote]Teresa Borges wrote:

First of all, I have to say that I can’t translate without reading, but for leisure I’ve been reading a book written by a young French author, Leïla Slimani, titled “Chanson douce”. I'm liking it so much that I’m considering buying her first one “Dans le jardin de l'ogre”. [/quote

What a coincidence, I read it in August, after hearing an interview on the radio. I loved it

Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work? | Certainly not

Alexandra Speirs — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 13:54:00 +0000

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Topic: Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work?
Poster: Alexandra Speirs
Post title: Certainly not

Reading is for relaxation after the hard grind ....

I always have at least 2 books on the go, one on the Kindle app (usually downloaded free) and one REAL book on paper.
I am currently working my way through all the Dickens stories that I managed not to read at school.

Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work? | Yes and no

Anna Herbst — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 13:17:00 +0000

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Topic: Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work?
Poster: Anna Herbst
Post title: Yes and no

I read all the time in both the languages I work with. Mostly fiction, interspersed with academic texts, poetry, essays, journal articles and more. As I consider anything to do with language related to translation, my reading is work related, however, as I derive enormous pleasure from reading, work is not foremost on my mind when I read.

With apologies to Descartes: I read, therefore I am.

Cheers,
Anna

Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work? | No

Mario Freitas — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 10:12:00 +0000

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Topic: Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work?
Poster: Mario Freitas
Post title: No

Reading has been reduced to leisure for me, for quite a while. I work with translations all day, and when I have time to stop and read something, I prefer something out of the professional area.

Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work? | No

Susana E. Cano Méndez — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 10:11:00 +0000

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Topic: Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work?
Poster: Susana E. Cano Méndez
Post title: No

I'm reading in Spanish "Muerte accidental de un anarquista" by Dario Fo.

Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work? | yes and no

Kay Denney — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 09:56:00 +0000

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Topic: Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work?
Poster: Kay Denney
Post title: yes and no

I do occasionally read about art and music for pleasure, which does help me improve and update my style, however most of the time my reading is purely for pleasure. I suppose even my reading for pleasure has an influence on my writing style though.

Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work? | Other (yes and no)

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 09:16:00 +0000

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Topic: Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: Other (yes and no)

First of all, I have to say that I can’t translate without reading, but for leisure I’ve been reading a book written by a young French author, Leïla Slimani, titled “Chanson douce”. I'm liking it so much that I’m considering buying her first one “Dans le jardin de l'ogre”.

Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work? | Partially

Marjolein Snippe — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 08:14:00 +0000

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Topic: Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work?
Poster: Marjolein Snippe
Post title: Partially

Leisure reading - no.
But I have also been working my way through an extensive medical textbook.

Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work?

ProZ.com Staff — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 08:10:02 +0000

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Topic: Poll: Is your reading material lately related to your work?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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