Poll: Are language services your only professional activity? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Are language services your only professional activity?".
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Translation has been my sole professional activity since 1986, although I didn't start out my career as a translator. Translation found me rather late in life: part-time for a few years followed by 20 years as full-time staff translator and then freelancer…
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Thayenga 
Germany
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Aside from translating I am also a writer and poet.
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Lingua 5B
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Thayenga wrote:
Aside from translating I am also a writer and poet.
Aren’t writing & poetry also language services?
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Thayenga
Germany
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| In the broadest sense only | Jan 9 |
Lingua 5B wrote: Thayenga wrote:
Aside from translating I am also a writer and poet. Aren’t writing & poetry also language services?
Writing and poetry do depend on language, at times one more than one, but some people write solely for themselves, e. g. diaries. This would not make it a service, especially if only one language is used.
In the broadest sense even filling in a form could be considered a language service... which, of course, doesn't really make sense.
[Edited at 2024-01-09 14:50 GMT]
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
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"Are language services your only professional activity?"
No. AAMOF I'm busy with other stuff ATM.
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Lingua 5B
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Thayenga wrote: Lingua 5B wrote: Thayenga wrote:
Aside from translating I am also a writer and poet. Aren’t writing & poetry also language services? Writing and poetry do depend on language, at times one more than one, but some people write solely for themselves, e. g. diaries. This would not make it a service, especially if only one language is used. In the broadest sense even filling in a form could be considered a language service... which, of course, doesn't really make sense. [Edited at 2024-01-09 14:50 GMT]
Filling a form is a legal/administrative service.
I would put writing/poetry under language service umbrella, not sure what else.
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Zea_Mays
Italy
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| a service or not a service? | Jan 9 |
Lingua 5B wrote:
Aren’t writing & poetry also language services?
Only if it is offered as such ("I write you a poem for your best friend's anniversary").
Otherwise I would rather classify it as art. (fluid boundaries here)
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Lingua 5B
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| Art/creative industry | Jan 9 |
Zea_Mays wrote: Lingua 5B wrote:
Aren’t writing & poetry also language services? Only if it is offered as such ("I write you a poem for your best friend's anniversary"). Otherwise I would rather classify it as art. (fluid boundaries here)
Maybe creative industry. If it’s a marketing writer than it’s a business service, not creative one.
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Zea_Mays
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| think what the word SERVICE means | Jan 9 |
Lingua 5B wrote: Zea_Mays wrote: Lingua 5B wrote:
Aren’t writing & poetry also language services? Only if it is offered as such ("I write you a poem for your best friend's anniversary"). Otherwise I would rather classify it as art. (fluid boundaries here) Maybe creative industry. If it’s a marketing writer than it’s a business service, not creative one.
Marketing copywriting is actually a service, writing literature is not.
BTW, marketing requires a lot of creativity (not to be confused with art).
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Lingua 5B
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Zea_Mays wrote: Lingua 5B wrote: Zea_Mays wrote: Lingua 5B wrote:
Aren’t writing & poetry also language services? Only if it is offered as such ("I write you a poem for your best friend's anniversary"). Otherwise I would rather classify it as art. (fluid boundaries here) Maybe creative industry. If it’s a marketing writer than it’s a business service, not creative one. Marketing copywriting is actually a service, writing literature is not. BTW, marketing requires a lot of creativity (not to be confused with art).
You can write literature as a service, as a ghostwriter. Not sure why you would say writing literature is not a service.
Everything in the world involves an element of creativity.
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Lingua 5B wrote:
You can write literature as a service, as a ghostwriter. Not sure why you would say writing literature is not a service.
Because a service is normally something you provide to someone else at their request.
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IrinaN
United States
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| Similarity is only on the other end | Jan 10 |
Both translation and literature can be a disservice
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leimarina
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I am a full time freelance translator and editor since 2011.
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