Poll: Do you have a preferred colored pen to underline your texts and write your notes? Autor de la hebra: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Do you have a preferred colored pen to underline your texts and write your notes?".
This poll was originally submitted by Susanna Martoni. View the poll results »
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I use an orange pen marker to underline my texts and different colour pens for writing different types of things (light green for my ledger, for instance).
| | | | | It depends on... | Jun 9, 2018 |
Not a pen, and not a special one. I keep a battery of pencils, which have to be SHARP, so I drop one and use the next when I am busy, but I sharpen them all regularly. I have a big sharpener with a box to catch shavings, and give a pencil a twist before I start if necessary. We have pencils all over the house for crosswords, shopping lists, answering the phone, whatever...
I have a couple of ultra-fine red roller-ball pens for reviewing/proofreading. One is getting dry after years o... See more Not a pen, and not a special one. I keep a battery of pencils, which have to be SHARP, so I drop one and use the next when I am busy, but I sharpen them all regularly. I have a big sharpener with a box to catch shavings, and give a pencil a twist before I start if necessary. We have pencils all over the house for crosswords, shopping lists, answering the phone, whatever...
I have a couple of ultra-fine red roller-ball pens for reviewing/proofreading. One is getting dry after years of faithful service, and will have to be replaced, especially as the other went AWOL this week, but it has turned up again. They are the expensive kind, but worth the investment!
I cannot use a normal ball pen, because I write with my left hand at a very oblique angle, and many of them simply scratch the paper - the tip does not always make contact. I can tip them up for short notes, but they cramp my style for serious work! ▲ Collapse
| | | | Debora d'Amato (X) 
Italia
Local time: 17:56
inglés al italiano
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Absolutely! I'm used to underlining with phosphorescent yellow highlight. When I have to underline something very important, however, I use the pink one as well.
Glowing colours help me to remind things easier
Anyway if I had to choose, I'd pick the yellow one.
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Susanna Martoni
Italia
Local time: 17:56
Miembro 2009
español al italiano
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| I had really forgotten | Jun 9, 2018 |
I had really forgotten this poll proposal!
That may sound silly but ...
I have some preferential pens and colours and they help me to develop and underline my notes, passions and printed jobs
| | | | Julian Holmes
Japón
Local time: 00:56
Miembro 2011
japonés al inglés
I have a nice selection of fluorescent coloured markers.
Which one I use depends entirely on how I am feeling and my biorhythm.
I wish I was nerdier so that I could wear white socks, have my trouser hems halfway up my shins and have all these pens tucked into my top pocket together with a slide rule.
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| | | | | I rarely write, and always in black biro | Jun 9, 2018 |
My clients all expect me to type my comnents and use Word or PDF mark-up tools.
| | | | neilmac
España
Local time: 17:56
español al inglés
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| Depends on... | Jun 9, 2018 |
... what for.
I rarely use pens nowadays anyway, but I always keep a yellow highlighting marker and a red pen handy just in case. And a normal black pen for signing or noting something down.
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Vi Pukite
Estados Unidos
Local time: 08:56
letón al inglés
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A good mechanical pencil my daughter bought me after I complained once too often about the cheap one I had, a couple of red roller-ball pens, a whole box of colored pencils, some sharp, some not.
All at the ready since sometimes I just have to print out the source and/or target and go over them thoroughly. Much better on the eyes than looking at a screen all the time.
| | | | Mario Freitas
Brasil
Local time: 12:56
Miembro 2014
inglés al portugués
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I use whatever I reach first for my notes. No other purpose for a pen while translating. Underlingning? Are you kidding?
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