What's your favorite guilty pleasure when translating?

Dmitry

Translation is a super fun activity, especially when you work in creative fields such as marketing, literary translation or video game localization.

I'm sure some of you have their guilty pleasures in translation. My guilty pleasure is translating curse words. Every now and then I have a video game project intended to adult audience due to violence, gore and strong language. And nothing makes me happier than translating all those curses and strong emotional expressions.

I really let my imagination run wild while translating strong language. It might seem childish, but I find it fun and so does my wife, when I share my best works with her. We even come up with variants and choose best contenders (lucky for us Russian is an incredible language when it comes to cursing, the sheer variety is mind-blowing) ?

What about you? What are your favorite guilty pleasures in translation?

eleonorang

Dmitry I feel you! In university, I attended a course by an Irish professor who taught us all the different ways to curse in Ireland and England (there's so many! lol) It was so fun.

I'm afraid I don't really have a guilty pleasure, besides eating while I work which normally I try to avoid because I care for the survival of my keyboard ?

alyonaxl8 The only guilty pleasure I have is when I find a mistake -> tell the client -> feel smug and superior lol

That feels so good ?

alyonaxl8

OMG this is so unfair! They don't have any curses in contracts or financial statements, whyyyyy???
The only guilty pleasure I have is when I find a mistake -> tell the client -> feel smug and superior lol

Dmitry

alyonaxl8 OMG this is so unfair! They don't have any curses in contracts or financial statements, whyyyyy???

Because if it was possible to curse in financial reports they would've simply consist of one single sentence instead of 100 pages:

"We made/lost shit-ton of money ?"

Dmitry

eleonorang eating while I work which normally I try to avoid because I care for the survival of my keyboard

Oh, I'm guilty of that too! Can't help it, it's a productivity trick! Gotta eat AND work at the same time ?

eleonorang

Dmitry Gotta eat AND work at the same time ?

Which is a problem, because I eat all the time ?

KarenMontaldi

Dmitry Gotta eat AND work at the same time ?

OMG eating and working are the death of me (I'm currently snacking on fresh crumbling cheese ?)

Dmitry

KarenMontaldi OMG eating and working are the death of me (I'm currently snacking on fresh crumbling cheese ?)

Don't mind me, just passing through, with a cup of tea and a Snickers in my hand ? 🐿️

alyonaxl8

@eleonorang @KarenMontaldi @Dmitry Wow you are high-skilled professionals. I'm so jealous. I can't eat and work at the same time. I think I need additional training to become as skilled as you all lol

eleonorang

alyonaxl8 I think I need additional training to become as skilled as you all lol

I've been training to eat while doing other stuff since I was born. No big deal ?

Teresa Well, actually... during winter I'm always eating because of the cold ?)

Can't wait to stuff every possible herbal tea in my kitchen pantry! And all those biscuits to go with...

Teresa

I gotta second you on eating while working! But then again, I'm ALWAYS eating ? even more now, with this hot weather! (Well, actually... during winter I'm always eating because of the cold ?)

March_ts

Well, apart from eating, I gotta say that I'm a coffee/tea addict, which isn't safe at all, since I am extremely clumsy ?
I've already lost two mobile phones because of accidentaly dropping them in water :S

eleonorang

March_ts I feel you, Marcela, I'm used to drinking a lot while I work (well, all day long actually) and I always keep a bottle of water at arm's length, but this also means that sooner or later I end up leaving drops or pools around ?

Dmitry

March_ts I gotta say that I'm a coffee/tea addict, which isn't safe at all, since I am extremely clumsy ?

Pro tip if you have a cat: don't you ever leave your beverages unattended. Cat owners report higher rates of things "accidentally" tipping over. ?

March_ts

eleonorang I always keep a bottle of water at arm's length, but this also means that sooner or later I end up leaving drops or pools around ?

Sometimes I think my laptop hates me because of this... I have too many liquids around it, I don't know how it's still dry ?

Dmitry Pro tip if you have a cat: don't you ever leave your beverages unattended. Cat owners report higher rates of things "accidentally" tipping over. ?

Sadly, I'm allergic. I found out a couple of years ago, when my aunt got a cat. I loved it and even though I knew I was allergic I kept petting it (not good for my eyes, nose and skin, but I just couldn't help it!).

The video is so hilarious! My aunt's cat was also a "gato malo"!

Btw, loved this tweet. Can't relate but it was soooo funny! ?