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Poll: Do you think translators tend to be introverts?
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Chié_JP
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One vote for Mario Nov 3, 2016

Mario Freitas wrote:

You'll find out if the person is an introvert once you place them among other people and see how they behave. So, the shortage of opportunities does not define a personal trait like this, above all based on one's professional activity.



Mario's right, I find myself introvert compared to people who keep drinking and shouting for nothing on Halloween Shibuya crossing streets,
but curiously enough no one ever identified me as "introvert" when speaking to other people (the contrary and in "personality test" I always get the result as "well-balanced" or "responsible person with plenty of common sense").
 
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"Tend to be" Nov 3, 2016

The question doesn't suggest that translating turns people into introverts. It simply asks if introverts *tend to be* attracted to the profession. And I would say that many of us are on the introverted side. The extroverts are the interpreters. I have often worked at conferences where teams of both were present and there was a marked difference in their demeanor. The interpreters were constantly schmoozing with the delegates and showing up at parties uninvited, while the translators, even when o... See more
The question doesn't suggest that translating turns people into introverts. It simply asks if introverts *tend to be* attracted to the profession. And I would say that many of us are on the introverted side. The extroverts are the interpreters. I have often worked at conferences where teams of both were present and there was a marked difference in their demeanor. The interpreters were constantly schmoozing with the delegates and showing up at parties uninvited, while the translators, even when off-duty, tended to hang out in huddles of their own kind.

My accountant once asked me: "How can you stand to sit translating all day long?" To which I replied: "How can you stand to look at numbers all day long?" ▲ Collapse
 
John Cutler
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Not necessarily, but... Nov 3, 2016

I don't know if you have to be an introvert to be a translator, but you do have to be willing to put up with periods of solitude, or at least minimal contact with "real" people in the "real" world.
 
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