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Thread poster: Lingua 5B
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English to Arabic
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Metin Demirel wrote:
Sorry for messing up with the quotes. I had copied the entire part and replaced Lingua 5B's message, but forgot to correct the name.

No problem.
Metin Demirel wrote:
Actually I had given those two examples to support your first statement about an audience affecting one's modality. Now I understand that personality is a not a monolithic entity but a spectrum which renders various parts of itself visible to various audiences. Maybe that's why we feel we (or other speakers) switch personality when switching the language.

Could be so.

Although, I like to think of personality as one-and-the-same chef utilizing different utensils (performances) to prepare different dishes (situations).

Christopher Schröder
Metin Demirel
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Baran Keki
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English to Turkish
Same Jul 9, 2022

I'm my usual miserable self in both Turkish and English. Perhaps I should learn to speak Portuguese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioasCmia0EA

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Matthias Brombach
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Long term effects of MCS Jul 9, 2022

I wonder what the long-term effects would be on one's mental health caused by all the hundreds of changes a day for a professional translator switching between source and target language when working in a CAT (with source language on the left side and target on the right): I assume we all are submitted to a phenomenon I would call the MCS syndrome (Micro Cultural Shocks) you may suffer from when your brain has to switch rapidly between the languages (which represent foreign cultures, we shouldn'... See more
I wonder what the long-term effects would be on one's mental health caused by all the hundreds of changes a day for a professional translator switching between source and target language when working in a CAT (with source language on the left side and target on the right): I assume we all are submitted to a phenomenon I would call the MCS syndrome (Micro Cultural Shocks) you may suffer from when your brain has to switch rapidly between the languages (which represent foreign cultures, we shouldn't forget that) and for a prolonged time. Any who would start a quick poll on that topic? Any chance to sue the translation industry for MCS for the long-term effects? How do you experience these effects and in what language combinations in your CAT? I assume the impact of MCS would be stronger the farther the distance between the cultures would be [e.g. between Portuguese (Portugal) and Portuguese (Brazil) or German (Germany) and German (Austria)]. ▲ Collapse


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