... Une deformation professionnelle, c'est ca ? = Goes with the job, huh? http://www.linguee.fr/francais-anglais/traduction/d%E9formation+professionnelle.html ...
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wustpisk
Feb 28, 2013 11:12 am
From a medical report koui stále - "jak se namane" - 20 cig za den I'm guessing: whatever he can lay his hands on? Thanks for any suggestions!...
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(no author)
(no email address)
Feb 28, 2013 11:32 am
sounds more like "when opportunity arises" whatever he can lay his hands on would be 'co se namane'? M ... From: "wustpisk"; <gerry.vickers@...> To:...
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wustpisk
Feb 28, 2013 11:38 am
Thanks - so basically chain smoker. It is probably a last attempt at humour from the patient who is lying on his deathbed. Exitus letalis soon follows....
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Gerald Turner
czechin2001
Feb 28, 2013 11:40 am
Exactly. Or "how does he come by..." Gerry ... -- 7 Old Shoreham Road Brighton Sussex BN1 5DQ U.K. Tel/fax: ++ 44 1273208484 To see a World in a Grain of Sand ...
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Gerald Turner
czechin2001
Feb 28, 2013 11:43 am
I bow to this wisdom ;) except that I'd say "whenever the opportunity arises" Gerald ... -- 7 Old Shoreham Road Brighton Sussex BN1 5DQ U.K. Tel/fax: ++ 44...
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(no author)
(no email address)
Feb 28, 2013 12:48 pm
Well, actually, 20 cigs a day doesn't sound that bad to me (non-smoker, but heavy smokers go through two packets a day, don't they?)... same goes for chain...
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Melvyn
melvyn.geo
Feb 28, 2013 6:56 pm
... or maybe occupational ailment, disorder, quirk, reflex... job conditioning force of habit at work, See also Veblen's concept of "trained incapacity",...
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James Kirchner
tomas.cejka
Feb 28, 2013 7:20 pm
Believe it or not, in English I've heard it called a "professional deformity" for years. It's just one of those concepts that doesn't cross the anglophone mind...
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Melvyn
melvyn.geo
Feb 28, 2013 8:24 pm
... Well sure, I have also heard it called a professional deformation, which at least gets a decent number of hits on the search engines, but these strike me...
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James Kirchner
tomas.cejka
Feb 28, 2013 8:32 pm
Is "professional deformity" any worse than "schadenfreude"? At least the calque from French is not opaque. When I'm talking to people I think won't know the...
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Melvyn
melvyn.geo
Feb 28, 2013 10:09 pm
... The more solutions, the merrier, AFAIAC. Calques included. Harrap's New Standard French and English Dictionary defines deformation professionnelle as...
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(no author)
(no email address)
Feb 28, 2013 10:49 pm
What's wrong with the old 'occupational hazard' - seems to be used quite widely for what we'd call 'profesionalni deformace' - in a sarcastic way of course,...
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James Kirchner
tomas.cejka
Feb 28, 2013 11:00 pm
Occupational hazard is completely different from professional deformity. A professional deformity is a psychological quirk caused by one's job. It generally...
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(no author)
(no email address)
Feb 28, 2013 11:16 pm
I don't know if I can properly describe this, but.. A teacher starts to patronise someone (an adult) at a party.. A doctor might start talking about some...
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James Kirchner
tomas.cejka
Feb 28, 2013 11:27 pm
The concept is different. The anglophone who says, "Occupational hazard," is saying, "Situations like this are one of the problems caused by my profession."...
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Liz
spacils
Mar 1, 2013 12:09 am
Hi, I've heard "occupational hazard" used ironically to describe the "mental illness" (usually some sort of obsessive-compulsive behaviour or altered...
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(no author)
(no email address)
Mar 1, 2013 12:10 am
I understand your your point, Jamie, but (unless I am mistaken), this may be one of those differences between US/BR/Europe - not saying I'm an authority, just...
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(no author)
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Mar 1, 2013 12:12 am
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James Kirchner
tomas.cejka
Mar 1, 2013 12:36 am
I don't know about any UK vs. US difference in the love of sarcasm. If anything, I'd expect the British to be more restrained in it, as they are restrained in...
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(no author)
(no email address)
Mar 1, 2013 1:11 am
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James Kirchner
tomas.cejka
Mar 1, 2013 1:19 am
Putting aside men in dresses, the main difference I see in the humor in British vs. American TV shows is that the British shows have all sorts of situations...
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Sarka Rubkova
srubkova
Mar 1, 2013 10:24 am
Ahoj, nejsem si jista významem části následující věty po "without" The Price is to be understood for the delivery goods (acc. to Incoterms 2010)...
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Sarka Rubkova
srubkova
Mar 1, 2013 10:33 am
Omlouvám se, ... From: Czechlist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Czechlist@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sarka Rubkova Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 11:25 AM To:...
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Melvyn
melvyn.geo
Mar 1, 2013 10:34 am
... This is a point I was going to make yesterday before I got sidetracked. I do see this small area of overlap between "deformation professionnelle" and...
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Hana Jarolímová
hanecka@...
Mar 1, 2013 10:34 am
no, nemysli se tim "packing without covers", jako zabalene, ale nezakryte? H...
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Melvyn
melvyn.geo
Mar 1, 2013 11:45 am
... senses that have nothing to do with music, I can't see why you object to "professional deformity" as a calque from French. I sense some ... ...
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James Kirchner
tomas.cejka
Mar 1, 2013 1:11 pm
I don't think that sentence was written by a native English speaker, and it looks like a translation from some other language. By "covers" could they mean...
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James Kirchner
tomas.cejka
Mar 1, 2013 1:16 pm
... "MOVE YOUR ASS, MISTER!" or, "MOVE YOUR ASS, LADY!" In the United States, we just say it. ... "Brought up in a barn?!" (I actually teach that expression...
