Poll: Have you ever asked another ProZ.com user on a date?

Chris S wrote:

I think the last time I asked someone on a date was in 1989...

For me, ProZ is about light relief, not a source of work (I don't get out of bed for ProZ outsourcer rates, darling), and pretty much everything that can be said about translation has already been said.

So in many ways it's just about chatting, venting, sharing a joke and, best of all, people watching.

I find it fascinating. It's not like Facebook where you get to see and learn everything about some people and their lives, which can get a bit tedious. Here you only get a few tantalising glimpses. A single tiny photo. The occasional personal revelation. The odd crack in that pervasive mask of competitive professionalism.

But it's still enough to feel quite strongly about some people. Some I feel drawn to, personally or professionally, maybe even sexually. Some are funny, some are good-looking, some are just nice.

Others I really can't stand. Some are unbelievably boring, some are insufferably pompous, some are tiresomely combative.

It's just like the real world, only you can turn it off.

And, of course, you can be who you want to be. We're all wordsmiths, so we can easily create whole new digital personae should we feel so inclined. Hard to sustain, I suspect, but fun to experiment with (I'm very different in real life).

Not entirely sure where I'm going here, but I would love the ProZ community in general to be a little bolder, to reveal a little more, to be a bit outrageous or provocative. Safe, boring answers don't do it for me.

But if ever I have a need for translation into various obscure language pairs, I do now know who to call.

And if ever I suddenly find myself single and lonely, I might conceivably approach a certain chain-smoking accident-prone individual of this parish...

Natalia Pedrosa wrote:

I once saw on the Translator's Feature a very interesting guy, an Englishman who lived in China.

I wrote to him to tell him he seemed to me very charming, but he never wrote back.

On the other hand I have been approached by a couple or three guys with the same intentions.

N.

[Edited at 2017-02-13 08:35 GMT]

Michael Harris wrote:

Come on Chris, how did you manage to get that one through, and where is "Other"?

Jo Macdonald wrote:

I wrote a comic short a while ago called "I got the hots 4 your icon" about pretty much the same thing. It's on my personal page (last one) if anyone wants to read it. It's not about Proz, but interacting with people online in general.

cloudhunter wrote:

I haven't but I'm a silent avid fan of Chris, so I basically might, if I weren't married

Teresa Borges wrote:



[Edited at 2017-02-13 11:17 GMT]

Laura Pascual wrote:

Well, writing to someone with whom you've never even talked, through a professional page, to tell him he looks charming? That's quite an inappropriate behaviour in my opinion.

(I don't get out of bed for ProZ outsourcer rates, darling)

Thayenga wrote:

@ Julian

How do you send real, solid flowers, chocolate & Co. into a virtual mailbox?

ILAN RUBIN wrote:

...it would go something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y_-vsHvPBE

Julian Holmes wrote:



Scotty, move out of warp speed and beam me down some daffs and a pint of Newkie Brown!

I'm so romantic, aren't I?