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Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating? | No

Muriel Vasconcellos (X) — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 07:03:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?
Poster: Muriel Vasconcellos (X)
Post title: No

I'm easily distracted and I have many bad habits, but I have never bitten my nails.

P.S. These comments read like "true confessions"!

Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating? | No

Gibril Koroma — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 00:38:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?
Poster: Gibril Koroma
Post title: No

No, never.

Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating? | really, anonymous?

Kay Denney — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 19:13:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?
Poster: Kay Denney
Post title: really, anonymous?

I dread to think what dire habits shall we have to own up to next? I realise that these are not serious polls but just how relevant is this? Will it be "do you snore more when you have a lot of work?" or "how many whiskies does it take to wind down after a tough translation?"

I'm not owning up to anything until anonymous outs himself!

[Edited at 2019-04-06 07:56 GMT]

Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating? | It depends

Yaotl Altan — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 18:57:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?
Poster: Yaotl Altan
Post title: It depends

It depends, because sometimes my right fingers try to find something in my nose. :)

Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating? | I would, but...

Elizabeth Tamblin (X) — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 18:14:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?
Poster: Elizabeth Tamblin (X)
Post title: I would, but...

After having a crown on one of my teeth, I find I can't get the right bite anymore. Very frustrating.

Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating? | No

Barbara Cochran, MFA — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 18:01:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?
Poster: Barbara Cochran, MFA
Post title: No

I guess I can't be considered to be one of Sigmund Freud's "oral personalities"!

Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating? | Good translator's humour

Gitte Hovedskov (X) — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 15:32:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?
Poster: Gitte Hovedskov (X)
Post title: Good translator's humour

[quote]Chris S wrote:

I only bite other people’s.
[/quote]

Hahahaha... I've missed this!!

Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating? | No

Richard Jenkins — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?
Poster: Richard Jenkins
Post title: No

I clip mine.

Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating? | Yes, and several others

Mario Freitas — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 14:01:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?
Poster: Mario Freitas
Post title: Yes, and several others

I have several distractions while working: smoking, coffee, biting nails, playing around with toothpicks, matches, etc. Some sort of hyperactivity, I guess.

Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating? | No, but I have a habit of...

Julio Madrid — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 13:38:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?
Poster: Julio Madrid
Post title: No, but I have a habit of...

... talking to myself while translating. Also biting my lips while typing or thinking and when not talking to myself... Maybe it's just my inner interpreter trying to take over my outter translator. I wonder what Freud would theorize about this... 🤔

[Edited at 2019-04-05 13:40 GMT]

Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating? | Hair!

Luana B. S. Mandarà — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 11:43:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?
Poster: Luana B. S. Mandarà
Post title: Hair!

Let apart smoking, I use to twist and knot my hair when I pause thinking about a possible sentence.

Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating? | No

Thayenga — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 11:01:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?
Poster: Thayenga
Post title: No

My fingers remain on the keyboard all the time.

I used to bite my nails until I was fifteen. Fortunately, I then started to hate the looks of them and quit immediately, never going back to that bad habit.

Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating? | No

neilmac — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 10:10:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?
Poster: neilmac
Post title: No

I bit my nails compulsively until I was in my 30s, when I just stopped for no apparent reason. My daughter was heading down the same route, but her mother managed to get her to stop by paying her for each full fingernail she let grow.

In my teens I also developed a pathological fear of the dentist's drill and would do anything, even having my teeth pulled out, rather than have a filling. However, that also disappeared in my 30s and I now have no qualms whatsoever about visiting the dentist.

Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating? | No but...

Marjolein Snippe — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 09:40:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?
Poster: Marjolein Snippe
Post title: No but...

I tend to pick at my lips when I am stressed or absent-minded. Not so much when translating as I need both hands for typing, but quite often when I am thinking. I try not to do so in company but can't seem to get myself to quit entirely.

Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating? | I need both hands for typing

Marta Cervera Areny — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 09:16:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?
Poster: Marta Cervera Areny
Post title: I need both hands for typing

I do actually bite my nails, but not while I'm working because I need both hands to type. When I have a lot of work and need to work extra hours is when I actually have nicer nails, because I don't have time to bite them and they can grow a bit :)

Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating? | No

The Shredder — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 08:46:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?
Poster: The Shredder
Post title: No

I only bite other people’s.

Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating? | I used to

CasaPhil — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 08:43:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?
Poster: CasaPhil
Post title: I used to

However I was a "light" nail biter, not the type who ends up with nails half their original size.
But even this horrible-tasting nail varnish in my youth wouldn't make me stop.
Anyway, I decided to stop when I was 26 following a triggering event. I invested in proper nail cutters and scissors instead.

Twenty-five years later, I just find this habit disgusting, revulsing, immature and yuk. And quitting is in fact much easier than quitting smoking.

Philippe

EDIT: I realise I didn't read the question. I started translating after I stopped biting my nails.

[Edited at 2019-04-05 11:08 GMT]

Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating? | No

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 08:29:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: No

I’ve never been a nail biter (as a very young girl I used to pick at dry skin around my cuticles until the day I got a nasty infection). When I started translating some 40 years ago I was a heavy smoker and I used to say that it helped me think better and find the right word (poor me!), the fact is that I stopped smoking in 1985 and I’m still thinking and translating…

P.S. How is it possible to translate and bite your nails at the same time, don't you need both hands to type?

[Edited at 2019-04-05 08:31 GMT]

Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?

ProZ.com Staff — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 08:10:02 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: Do you have a habit of biting your nails while translating?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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