AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!
Jul. 15th, 2003 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeSociologists on crack! Sociologists on crack!
*runs around in circles, shrieking and flailing*
...
Err, yeah.
No, seriously. This guy gives me an "urgent" job of three pages to translate from French into English, and the French is so piss-poor that it DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE AT ALL! *screams in utter frustration*
WHY can't people fucking WRITE anymore?!?! Is it too much to ask of someone with a university education to use fucking VERBS? Articles, prepositions and nouns would help too, preferably in the right order.
What the bleeding fuck am I supposed to do with this sentence: "Le Canada en fait la promotion (Chili, Costa Rica, Amerique Centrale.)" Great. So Canada promotes it. What about those other countries? What have they got to do with it? Do they promote it too? Is Canada trying to get them on board? Have they all decided to make the kumquat their national food? WHAT?!?!
*bangs head on keyboard*
nmnmjkjk,llksdkldxdfkllkdfllxcfkcfklxcfkl;lflxfoldxfl;dfxdflldfxdl;dfdl;
*remembers it's not her keyboard and stops*
*siiiiiiiigh*
*runs around in circles, shrieking and flailing*
...
Err, yeah.
No, seriously. This guy gives me an "urgent" job of three pages to translate from French into English, and the French is so piss-poor that it DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE AT ALL! *screams in utter frustration*
WHY can't people fucking WRITE anymore?!?! Is it too much to ask of someone with a university education to use fucking VERBS? Articles, prepositions and nouns would help too, preferably in the right order.
What the bleeding fuck am I supposed to do with this sentence: "Le Canada en fait la promotion (Chili, Costa Rica, Amerique Centrale.)" Great. So Canada promotes it. What about those other countries? What have they got to do with it? Do they promote it too? Is Canada trying to get them on board? Have they all decided to make the kumquat their national food? WHAT?!?!
*bangs head on keyboard*
nmnmjkjk,llksdkldxdfkllkdfllxcfkcfklxcfkl;lflxfoldxfl;dfxdflldfxdl;dfdl;
*remembers it's not her keyboard and stops*
*siiiiiiiigh*
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Date: 2003-07-15 01:03 pm (UTC)As I said before - I hate translation work, mainly for that reason. Getting something from someone who can't write just makes me want to take out the nukes and...
Right. No enabling.
:: settles for sympathetic pat again ::
;)
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Date: 2003-07-15 01:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-15 01:10 pm (UTC)If it's just a random quiz I don't bother adding warnings or descriptions or whatever. :)
*g*
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Date: 2003-07-15 01:12 pm (UTC)*wishes she had nukes to hand*
But when you get someone who knows how to write, then translating becomes a sheer, unadulterated joy. It's why I love what I do. :)
Re:
Date: 2003-07-15 01:13 pm (UTC)I've never had that happen. Probably because at first it was Ubi Soft work, then it was insurance work. ;)
:: grins ::
:: hands over a few spare nukes ::
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Date: 2003-07-15 01:29 pm (UTC)*nukes nasty!bad! text*
*feels better*
Yeah. UbiSoft and then insurance. Whoo, fun stuff there. *rolls eyes*
*g*
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Date: 2003-07-15 07:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-15 08:07 pm (UTC)with my dad, it was just me getting fed up of him writing "compagny" over and over again, no matter how many times i corrected him or underlined it in red marker, or multiple colors, etc...