Poll: Are you a member of a local translators/interpreters association? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Are you a member of a local translators/interpreters association?".
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| | | | | Not currently | Mar 31, 2018 |
When I lived in Washington, D.C., I was active in both the American Translators Association, headquartered there, and the local ATA chapter. I have not joined the chapter here in San Diego.
| | | | | | Anna Herbst 
Australia
Local time: 11:15
English to Swedish
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| Please define "local" in the context of the question | Mar 31, 2018 |
If pollsters on a translators'/interpreters' website can't get a grip on the proper meaning of words, what hope for our so-called "profession"?
If by "local" the pollster really means "local" (or even, in my circumstances, "regional"), my answer is "There are none where I live".
If by "local" the pollster means "national", my answer is "No". There is a "national" associa... See more If pollsters on a translators'/interpreters' website can't get a grip on the proper meaning of words, what hope for our so-called "profession"?
If by "local" the pollster really means "local" (or even, in my circumstances, "regional"), my answer is "There are none where I live".
If by "local" the pollster means "national", my answer is "No". There is a "national" association here in Chile ( www.cotich.cl ), of which I am not a member. Its HQ is over 700 km from my workplace, so hardly "local". And, as Graucho Marx is reputed to have said (approximately): "If they’d have me as a member, I wouldn’t want to join - unless they promised to reimburse me 3 days' worth of viaticos to attend each of their meetings in Santiago."
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| | | | Julian Holmes
Japan
Local time: 10:15
Member (2011)
Japanese to English
JAT
No prize or cigar for guessing what this stands for. 
| | | | Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 22:15
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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And I don't ever intend to be.
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