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Tom in London
United Kingdom
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Italian to English
| Not only literature | Feb 26 |
Wilsonn Perez Reyes wrote:
by appreciating its literature we gain insights into its culture as a whole.
I've just been reading some of the political essays of Alexander Herzen, one of the great Russian thinkers. Russia is also very important in architecture, graphic design, etc.
In the period immediately following the 1917 Revolution, the Constructivists did wonderful things that are still very influential today.
https://www.worldofleveldesign.com/categories/architecture/constructivist_architecture/constructivist_architecture.php
Russian culture is part of European culture. Unfortunately they've had too many tyrannical leaders.
[Edited at 2024-02-26 16:54 GMT]
| | | | | No, not for this reason | Feb 26 |
Zea_Mays wrote:
The war led to a huge increase of energy costs, which led to inflation because of increasing prices of goods which led to people buying less products which led to firms to find ways to save money that included not immediately needed translations...... But most of all, inflation means higher costs, so even if you have the same work volume than before, you are actually earning less because of higher costs and would need to work more in order to compensate this.
Germany is in recession for this reason.
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The so-called recession has many reasons and first of all it is only a very slight recession, compared to other countries, which may be better off for demographic reasons. This means that the "crisis" is whining on a high level. Germans are not "forced to gather firewood in the forests", as I could read here on proz last year. The top reason still is the reverse job crisis with almost 700,000 vacancies (source: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/2900/umfrage/entwicklung-des-gemeldeten-offenen-arbeitsstellenbestands/). German translators do not suffer (although no one of them would admit it here in the public) by fewer jobs because of the high inflation but by the effects AI causes.
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| | | | | Football club Dynamo Kyiv is affected | Feb 26 |
Dynamo Kyiv slipped to fifth place in the Ukrainian football Premier League
| | | | | Yes, but not in the way you mean | Feb 27 |
Leaving aside the recession, one of my clients has commissioned quite a few translations for the influx of Ukrainian refugees - not just into Ukrainian but also into English. I'd prefer to have not gotten the money and for Ukraine have been spared from war, but if you're asking how it has affected my business, I have benefitted from it indirectly.
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Liena Vijupe 
Latvia
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Nobody is saying that literature and culture is bad, just that for many people it causes grief at this time. Most of them know that the great writers and thinkers of the past or even the language itself has nothing to do with what is happening now, it's just too hard to enjoy it in the current circumstances because of what it represents.
And that is what makes it particularly sad – there is so much of true greatness in the past, and yet one insane person with his servants and followers w... See more Nobody is saying that literature and culture is bad, just that for many people it causes grief at this time. Most of them know that the great writers and thinkers of the past or even the language itself has nothing to do with what is happening now, it's just too hard to enjoy it in the current circumstances because of what it represents.
And that is what makes it particularly sad – there is so much of true greatness in the past, and yet one insane person with his servants and followers wants to bring back the worst from it. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Zea_Mays
Italy
Local time: 06:01
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Matthias Brombach wrote: Zea_Mays wrote:
The war led to a huge increase of energy costs, which led to inflation because of increasing prices of goods which led to people buying less products which led to firms to find ways to save money that included not immediately needed translations...... But most of all, inflation means higher costs, so even if you have the same work volume than before, you are actually earning less because of higher costs and would need to work more in order to compensate this.
Germany is in recession for this reason.
The so-called recession has many reasons and first of all it is only a very slight recession, compared to other countries, which may be better off for demographic reasons. This means that the "crisis" is whining on a high level. Germans are not "forced to gather firewood in the forests", as I could read here on proz last year. The top reason still is the reverse job crisis with almost 700,000 vacancies (source: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/2900/umfrage/entwicklung-des-gemeldeten-offenen-arbeitsstellenbestands/). German translators do not suffer (although no one of them would admit it here in the public) by fewer jobs because of the high inflation but by the effects AI causes.
This may be one of the reasons (others say it is because of the many many sick people...), but currently the main factor is inflation caused by high energy costs. It is slowly decreasing, but since consumer prices have not been reduced as well, the inflation is actually still high, just adding on what was there before.
https://www.fr.de/wirtschaft/euro-verlust-energiepreis-energie-gazprom-deutsche-wirtschaft-ukraine-krieg-200-milliarden-zr-92847667.html
| | | | | By still working for Russia... | Feb 27 |
Samuel Murray wrote:
Yes, my three Russian clients are now getting free work from me because they can't pay me. It's a goodwill investment in the future.
... don't you worry that you are helping to fund the war?
| | | | Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:01
Member (2008)
Italian to English
Christopher Schröder wrote: Samuel Murray wrote:
Yes, my three Russian clients are now getting free work from me because they can't pay me. It's a goodwill investment in the future. ... don't you worry that you are helping to fund the war?
Everybody's funding the war - on both sides. Fortunes are being made. This is what wars are for!
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Samuel Murray
Netherlands
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Christopher Schröder wrote: Samuel Murray wrote:
Yes, my three Russian clients are now getting free work from me because they can't pay me. It's a goodwill investment in the future. By still working for Russia, don't you worry that you are helping to fund the war?
My country's government is already funding the war. (-:
Besides, my Russian clients have nothing to do with the war. They are separate people with separate opinions, political views and personal beliefs. By the same token, I'm not supporting the ethnic cleansing in Gaza simply by continuing to work with Israeli agencies. People who work at agencies are individual people who are separate from political campaigns run by their governments. Similarly, I would not discriminate against Ukrainian agencies just because they have a government that runs a linguistic and cultural cleansing campaign against non-Ukrainian speakers in Ukraine. I respectfully disagree with, but have sympathy for, people who suffer from "one country = one language" ideology.
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Tom in London wrote:
Everybody's funding the war - on both sides. Fortunes are being made. This is what wars are for!
[Edited at 2024-02-27 12:09 GMT]
Everybody has a share (What's good for Milo Minderbinder, is good for the country).
| | | | Zea_Mays
Italy
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Tom in London wrote:
Everybody's funding the war - on both sides. Fortunes are being made. This is what wars are for!
wishy washy
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Samuel Murray wrote:
My country's government is already funding the war.
Mine too… I get that individual Russians might not be in favour of the war, but I was thinking more of undermining or breaching international economic sanctions by continuing to trade.
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Samuel Murray
Netherlands
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Christopher Schröder wrote:
I was thinking more of undermining or breaching international economic sanctions by continuing to trade.
None of the agencies that I work with are sanctioned.
| | | | Liena Vijupe
Latvia
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French to Latvian
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| just call it volunteering | Feb 27 |
Samuel Murray wrote:
Yes, my three Russian clients are now getting free work from me because they can't pay me. It's a goodwill investment in the future.
I can already imagine the Russians telling it each other as a good joke. Слушай, Федя, этому даже деньги не нужны, давай найдём для него ещё что-нибудь...
Maybe your clients truly are just poor souls who also have no issue with using somebody's work for free, but "goodwill investment" doesn't translate into Russian, at least not the way you mean it.
| | | | daniel gwire
Ghana
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From January to March 2022 I was getting daily work from a particular agency. There was so much work I sometimes struggled to handle the volume, but it felt great to be earning so much. When Russia invaded Ukraine the work continued to come in until March when everything stopped. Literally. No more work came in from that agency and everything else dried up as well. 2022 was a devastating year for me. This continued through most of 2023. Things started to change last September but ended in mid-De... See more From January to March 2022 I was getting daily work from a particular agency. There was so much work I sometimes struggled to handle the volume, but it felt great to be earning so much. When Russia invaded Ukraine the work continued to come in until March when everything stopped. Literally. No more work came in from that agency and everything else dried up as well. 2022 was a devastating year for me. This continued through most of 2023. Things started to change last September but ended in mid-December. Since then I've been struggling to get work again. This year has been a disaster so far. ▲ Collapse
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