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Becca Resnik 
United States
Local time: 04:03
Member
German to English
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| Loved the food in the UK! | Jan 5, 2021 |
Rachel Fell wrote:
I have to defend all those British dishes so vilified on the previous page: they are all really nice if cooked properly! And yes, of course I love dishes from other countries too.
Agreed! I've always heard a stereotype that food in the UK is nothing to be desired. We made a port call there once when I was deployed, and I found British cuisine *to die for.* For such "bad cuisine," every meal at every restaurant we went to seemed to have been done just right!
| | | | Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:03
Member (2008)
Italian to English
Cynthia Baeyens wrote:
..... shattered every plan that I had imagined for myself.
Q- How to made God laugh?
A- Tell him your plans.
| | | | Mervyn Henderson (X)
Spain
Local time: 10:03
Spanish to English
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And ... how to make him laugh again, Tom?
Tell him you have other plans.
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Mervyn Henderson wrote:
I know the ladies' toilets you mean. Obviously Covid has prevented me going there as often as I would have liked this year. However, the upside of travel restrictions is that they have also prevented Keira Knightley from pestering me to work with my PC perched on her bare bottom as she files her nails and goes through her lines for the next gig. She's so clingy, that girl.
Sadly it wasn’t HP on Keira’s bottom but Adele on Delhi’s belly.
(Trying to be too clever there. Go to the back of the class.)
I no longer remember why it wasn’t the gents’. While it might have been something mundane like cleaning operations in progress, I prefer to think it was something more profound like striking a blow for a non-binary society and world peace.
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Mervyn Henderson (X)
Spain
Local time: 10:03
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Oh, don't. Please don't. The image of Miss K with HP all over is too overwhelming. A bacon butty.
[Edited at 2021-01-05 17:28 GMT]
| | | | Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 05:03
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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| A weird curve | Jan 6, 2021 |
It started regularly, and kept the standard until April.
As of May, the volume started reducing, until in July I had almost nothing to do.
August was the worst month (in terms of income) in my professional history.
In August, the curve started rising again.
But from September to December, it grew so much the earlier losses were compensated and well exceeded.
Overall, I still had a little growth both in volume and income, against 2019.
I can't complain real... See more It started regularly, and kept the standard until April.
As of May, the volume started reducing, until in July I had almost nothing to do.
August was the worst month (in terms of income) in my professional history.
In August, the curve started rising again.
But from September to December, it grew so much the earlier losses were compensated and well exceeded.
Overall, I still had a little growth both in volume and income, against 2019.
I can't complain really. Very positive bottom line. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 05:03
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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| Crisis in Brazil? | Jan 6, 2021 |
Chris S wrote: Tom in London wrote:
What's wrong with Brazil?
Have you not heard about the crisis there?
The crisis in Brazil started in 1501, and never ended. What we're going through now is a bit worse because we are coming from 13 years of the worst government in our history, moving into the second worst for another 4 years. The electors here are pitiful.
| | | | Dan Lucas
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:03
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
| Here's hoping | Jan 6, 2021 |
Mario Freitas wrote:
But from September to December, it grew so much the earlier losses were compensated and well exceeded.
Suspect this may become a common experience among freelancers in 2021. I think there is huge pent-up demand in some areas, and provided that there are signs of coronavirus being brought under control we should see a surge of orders later in the year.
Dan
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:03
Member (2008)
Italian to English
| Well, you say that | Jan 6, 2021 |
Dan Lucas wrote:
---- provided that there are signs of coronavirus being brought under control....
I wish I had your optimism.
There are signs of an idiot Prime Minister making wild promises that turn out not to be true.
| | | | | Kind of a weird year | Jan 6, 2021 |
All in all it was a pretty good year as I managed to land a good client with regular work, good rates and good working conditions, which is rare. But after nine month an issue occured where a project got published in its "raw translation" form (even though there's always a corrector checking the translations) and made me lose the job. Not so great, but I was able to save a hefty sum nonetheless, so... we will see what 2021 has in store.
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