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Paulinho Fonseca Brazil Local time: 20:54 Member (2011) English to Portuguese + ...
Hard to explain
Oct 2, 2015
Annamaria Amik wrote:
This was posted by European Commission Interpreters - SCIC on Facebook.
[Edited at 2015-10-02 19:34 GMT]
If I am working from home, most of them think I spend the day on Facebook. When on business trips, for interpretation, they think I am on holiday. :/ $%#@%%%
[Edited at 2015-10-02 20:36 GMT]
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If I am working from home, most of them think I spend the day on Facebook. When on business trips, for interpretation, they think I am on holiday. :/ $%#@%%%
My boss and my colleagues understand that translation is quite easy and they can do better than I. What a shame on the translation profession!
Soonthon L.
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Daryo United Kingdom Local time: 00:54 Serbian to English + ...
This WASN'T posted by European Commission Interpreters - SCIC
Oct 3, 2015
they NEVER do any translating, at least not for SCIC;
translating has NOTHING to do with SCIC;
there are two completely separate DG for interpreting and for translatin... See more
they NEVER do any translating, at least not for SCIC;
translating has NOTHING to do with SCIC;
there are two completely separate DG for interpreting and for translating:
For a Language Services Provider they are showing a worryingly foggy understanding of what is interpreting, if they repost silly jokes conflating it with translating;
I can hardly imagine ANY professional interpreter [from SCIC or not] posting such a silly attempt at joking about translating;
If this agency wants to give useful information about their services through light humour (in itself a good idea), they should create their own content instead of lifting poor attempts at humour from other people, who themselves just helped themselves to other people's pictures ...
Namely, I very much doubt that whoever put this picture on Flickr gave permission to anyone to use it in some silly collage:
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