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Dating a Translator? You Better be Aware of These 7 Details
If you think there’s nothing intimidating about translators, you seriously got it all wrong. We’re not even talking about individual characters here. There’s something – many things actually – common to translators that you may want to be aware of. Avoid the “shock” of dating a translator by knowing these idiosyncrasies.
7. They can be ridiculously passionate about languages and translation.
Obviously, translators know languages and they are passionate for them if they know them by heart and if they've been doing translations for years. If you don’t want to get yourself in hot water, don’t even think of engaging them in discussions like; which language is better or whether or not it’s really necessary to know different languages. Don’t even dare raise the speculations about computers and AI taking over the language translation industry.
6. They expect you to know the difference between a translator and an interpreter.
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