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Poll: Which of these animals best represents the freelance translator, in your opinion? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Which of these animals best represents the freelance translator, in your opinion?".
This poll was originally submitted by opolt. View the poll results »
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Natalia Pedrosa (X) 
Local time: 14:41
English to Spanish
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I spend all day long speaking to myself and nobody pays any attention to me.
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Natalia Pedrosa wrote: I spend all day long speaking to myself and nobody pays any attention to me.
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Julian Holmes
Japan
Local time: 21:41
Member (2011)
Japanese to English
I think we can be likened to sponges for the amount of information we're expected to soak in  and punchbags for the amount of punishment we can take. 
Happy translating!
[Edited at 2012-02-21 09:20 GMT]
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An hybrid animal: half bookworm, half parrot (for the same reasons as Natalia)...
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Rob Lunn
Spain
Local time: 14:41
Spanish to English
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| Hermit crab for me | Feb 21, 2012 |
Now just let me pull back into my shell…
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Your translation may be useful, may be not, like the snake's poison 
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Interlangue (X)
Angola
Local time: 14:41
English to French
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We have to adjust to many different people, texts, ways of thinking, ways of expressing things, cultures, etc., change our appearance without changing our nature.
I do speak a lot to myself too (I think out loud actually) but never felt like a parrot.
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Vitals
Lithuania
Local time: 15:41
English to Lithuanian
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This poll is one of the day-brighteners! Thanks to the author.
Excellent comparisons. I have been called a parrot, a scapegoat and a bookworm before (as a translator). Chameleon is a nice shot. Ape - good for an interpreter with expressive manners. Unknown fossil - yes, an unknown "incognito" mechanism in human skin that works in mysterious ways.
Also, a horse, a workhorse probably for the amount of work.
Have a nice day!
VS
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| Chameleon / hybrid | Feb 21, 2012 |
Haha, I love that one.
I am a hybrid.
A chameleon for adapting to new subjects and challenges every day.
A hermit crab, because this is my personality - I love being alone and undisturbed.
A bookworm, because I love reading.
A smiling cat – when investing in CAT tools pays back instead of resulting in clients demanding unreasonable discounts or deadlines.
With “potential clients” trying to throw peanuts at me, I sometimes feel like a monkey, but th... See more Haha, I love that one.
I am a hybrid.
A chameleon for adapting to new subjects and challenges every day.
A hermit crab, because this is my personality - I love being alone and undisturbed.
A bookworm, because I love reading.
A smiling cat – when investing in CAT tools pays back instead of resulting in clients demanding unreasonable discounts or deadlines.
With “potential clients” trying to throw peanuts at me, I sometimes feel like a monkey, but the good thing is that I am not a monkey in a cage, but a free(lance) one that can reject those peanuts and look for huge and tasty bananas elsewhere. ▲ Collapse
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David Wright
Austria
Local time: 14:41
German to English
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eats sh--- and sh--s sh---
or GIGO, to use a term form the early days of computing.
(actually I consider the translator to have skills that raise him/her not only above the level of animals but even above those of other humans - they only have to produce their stuff - we have to a) understand it and b) express it in a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LANGUAGE! )
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I was about to say cart horse, but I see someone else got there first. Think of poor, betrayed Boxer in Animal Farm ...
Slogging on,
Jenny
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Chun Un
Macau
Member (2007)
English to Chinese
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Very interesting poll question indeed...
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Emma Goldsmith
Spain
Local time: 14:41
Member (2004)
Spanish to English
| Has Parrot checked out this poll? | Feb 21, 2012 |
I wonder what Parrot voted.
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ikeda45
Local time: 21:41
Member (2007)
English to Japanese
I have a parrot myself and learned a lot about them. Parrots are highly sociable and can't stand to be alone.
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