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Poll: How often are you confronted with your own translations in your daily life? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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XXXphxxx (X) 
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:34
Portuguese to English
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I didn't understand the question. Does it mean "come across your own translations"?
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but it's an interesting and finally new question.
[Edited at 2014-10-23 08:32 GMT]
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Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:34
Russian to English
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In memoriam
I am assuming this means coming across something you have translated, such as advertising copy, in a magazine or on a poster. Or a book on sale in a shop. I'd like to ask whoever posted this question to clarify it further.
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I voted other because I have to say that now it happens from time to time, but in the past, when my father was trying to survive his cancer, I translated all the patents related to the drugs he was taking. Well, I did not actually want to have such a real application of my translation, but that's the way it goes sometimes.
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| Very often (though not daily)! | Oct 23, 2014 |
I have been translating very regularly articles published by “The Economist” and “The Guardian” for a Portuguese weekly newspaper (“Expresso”) and a monthly magazine (“Courrier Internacional”)...
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I assume this means outside work situations.
I pass by buildings and see advertising with end clients' names all the time, but rarely come across anything I have translated.
One exception is an international museum near where I live, as I collect their catalogues and magazines.
Of course I keep archives and TMs of earlier work for reference when the same clients send more work, so I am regularly confronted with those.
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 12:34
Spanish to English
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Although it's happened a couple of times to me in the past month or so. When researching or doublechecking a term or phrase using Google or similar, I ended up on the website of one of my clients, reading a text which I had translated for them. The first time it happened I was actually quite worried, as I didn't recognise the website text as my own work, and I thought they must have engaged someone more skilful, with a neater turn of phrase. However, upon checking my records I found out that I w... See more Although it's happened a couple of times to me in the past month or so. When researching or doublechecking a term or phrase using Google or similar, I ended up on the website of one of my clients, reading a text which I had translated for them. The first time it happened I was actually quite worried, as I didn't recognise the website text as my own work, and I thought they must have engaged someone more skilful, with a neater turn of phrase. However, upon checking my records I found out that I was indeed the culprit.
Which was nice
PS: And it hadn't been post-edited either!
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Julian Holmes
Japan
Local time: 19:34
Member (2011)
Japanese to English
| Both never and all the time | Oct 23, 2014 |
My translations in the TM I use to translate - all the time
Translations in publications or the public domain - never
Yes, this is a weirdly phrased poll question. I really don't know what it's trying to say or how I should answer. 
Small edit
[Edited at 2014-10-24 00:41 GMT]
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Mario Chavez (X)
Local time: 06:34
English to Spanish
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| Confrontational translations? | Oct 23, 2014 |
Lisa Simpson, MCIL MITI wrote:
I didn't understand the question. Does it mean "come across your own translations"?
Hahahahah, Lisa, I had the same impression.
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| Imagine being the Queen | Oct 23, 2014 |
Your face on every stamp you lick, every coin you put in the slot machine, every banknote you snort through...
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One of my translation projects is up there for the world to see at Rome's Palazzo delle Esposizioni for the next 7 months, in the form of the exhibition "Numbers. Everything that counts", and it was nice to see that. But I shan't be "confronted by it on a daily basis" .
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 12:34
Member (2009)
English to German
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| Rarely, but never confronted! :) | Oct 23, 2014 |
I've seen one of my book translations, but usually I can read my subtitles while watching TV episodes. And that is not a negative experiences. Therefore, a firm "no" to this "being confronted with".
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| Once, to my surprise and delight | Oct 23, 2014 |
neilmac wrote:
...and I thought they must have engaged someone more skilful, with a neater turn of phrase. However, upon checking my records I found out that I was indeed the culprit.
Something similar once happened to me. When I first arrived in Spain almost 20 years ago, the sign shop on the ground floor of our apartment building needed some words translated for a shop downtown.
I wasn't working as a translator (and had actually never even considered the idea), but they knew I was from the US, so one day one of them stopped me on the sidewalk and asked me if I'd lend them a hand, and I did for a very modest fee.
A couple of years later, wandering around downtown, I came across a large party store type shop with one of its outside walls completely covered with a painted list of what they had on offer.
After pointing out the rather eye-catching paint job and nicely worded (American) English to my husband, I suddenly realized it was the very same list I'd translated a couple of years earlier...and for which I'd charged virtually nothing.
Seeing my translation covering the side of a building made me feel rather like a star, but realizing how little I'd earned for it made me feel rather stupid.
Live and learn.
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| All the time | Oct 23, 2014 |
I see many of the games that I have translated on the shelves. Most developers even give me a free copy so I can enjoy it at home.
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