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expressisverbis
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Eleftherios Kritikakis wrote:
If you have money and/or good looks and an attractive personality, you'll never be "marginalized" regardless of occupation.
Do translators need to have good looks?
As far as I can see it, translators need to know how to do their job very well, play fair and be courteous to their colleagues and clients in private or public communication above all.
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Was ik al bang voor, eigen meningen schijnen niet gewaardeerd te worden.
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Robert Rietvelt wrote:
Was ik al bang voor, eigen meningen schijnen niet gewaardeerd te worden.
Sorry, maar wat precies bedoel je? We twee hebben geen directe dispuut gehad.
[Bearbeitet am 2021-07-07 21:18 GMT]
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Sorry, big misunderstanding here. I was talking about your hidden/removed posts.
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expressisverbis wrote:
Do translators need to have good looks?
Some have a good look (Hi, Sandra!) and some would need a good or better look. I'm pretty sure that PMs also look after the profile photo here on proz, to see, whether they find their prospective candidate for collaboration attractive / pleasant or not. This is a psychological matter (attractivity is unwittingly associated with assertiveness, competence, and other as positive considered properties).
| | | | | Would you (or any other) ... | Jul 8, 2021 |
Robert Rietvelt wrote: But most importantly, where is Sheila? Haven't heard from her for some time either. Hope she is on a wonderful holiday. 
... who has had a closer interaction with her here in the forums please ask her by private email? You are right, she is missing, since April, if I'm not wrong. She had a very smoothing effect on all the rants here. Tell her, that a lot of posters get mad here without her  I really hope she's still fine!
| | | | | Didn't he ... | Jul 8, 2021 |
Robert Forstag wrote: Mervyn Henderson (X) wrote:
... consultant. Hopefully they'll be so wowed and cowed they won't ask you to elaborate. What happened to Mervyn?
... post his last post on Ascension Day, if I recall correctly? What a coincidence, or is it a sign?
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P.L.F. Persio 
Netherlands
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| expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 20:53
Member (2015)
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| I couldn't be silent... | Jul 8, 2021 |
Mervyn, wherever you are, we are 'Here for You':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8PPap4dJog
Regarding our colleague, Sheila, although I have not had much contact with her, I have read some of her very positive advice and comments.
I hope you are well, and come back quickly, Sheila!
| | | | Abba Storgen (X)
United States
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expressisverbis wrote:
Do translators need to have good looks?
As far as I can see it, translators need to know how to do their job very well, play fair and be courteous to their colleagues and clients in private or public communication above all.
Obviously in this phrase ("If you have money and good looks") I was talking in general.
Translators don't have money. If they had money, they'd have no reason whatsoever to be in this business
or in any other "hand-to-mouth in isolation without any benefits" business.
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I’m throwing a party next week and I’m looking someone to be the life and soul.
My translation career is going pretty well, against all the odds, so it’ll be real champagne.
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| Absent friends | Jul 14, 2021 |
Robert Rietvelt wrote: But most importantly, where is Sheila? Haven't heard from her for some time either. Hope she is on a wonderful holiday.
If I remember rightly, she mentioned in a post near the end of last year that she was about to retire, so that might explain it. I too hope we'll hear from her again, her advice is so outstandingly good that she really ought to charge for it, and have her very own agony aunt column ("Ask Sheila")!
And on the subject of long absences, I haven't seen anything of Dan L for a while. I hope he'll be back too.
| | | | | And not to forget ... | Jul 14, 2021 |
...Lincoln, our human time machine! Or has he also been physically stuck in the past now?
| | | | | If I remember correctly ...... | Jul 15, 2021 |
Matthias Brombach wrote:
...Lincoln, our human time machine! Or has he also been physically stuck in the past now?
...... he was also banned from Proz, and could for some reason only answer old threads, which he did!
[Edited at 2021-07-15 17:45 GMT]
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