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| | | | Natalia Pedrosa (X) 
Local time: 04:41
angličtina -> španělština
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I spend all day long speaking to myself and nobody pays any attention to me.
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Natalia Pedrosa wrote: I spend all day long speaking to myself and nobody pays any attention to me.
| | | | Julian Holmes
Japonsko
Local time: 11:41
Člen (2011)
japonština -> angličtina
I think we can be likened to sponges for the amount of information we're expected to soak in  and punchbags for the amount of punishment we can take. 
Happy translating!
[Edited at 2012-02-21 09:20 GMT]
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An hybrid animal: half bookworm, half parrot (for the same reasons as Natalia)...
| | | | Rob Lunn
Španělsko
Local time: 04:41
španělština -> angličtina
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| Hermit crab for me | Feb 21, 2012 |
Now just let me pull back into my shell…
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Your translation may be useful, may be not, like the snake's poison 
| | | | Interlangue (X)
Angola
Local time: 04:41
angličtina -> francouzština
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We have to adjust to many different people, texts, ways of thinking, ways of expressing things, cultures, etc., change our appearance without changing our nature.
I do speak a lot to myself too (I think out loud actually) but never felt like a parrot.
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Vitals
Litva
Local time: 05:41
angličtina -> litevština
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This poll is one of the day-brighteners! Thanks to the author.
Excellent comparisons. I have been called a parrot, a scapegoat and a bookworm before (as a translator). Chameleon is a nice shot. Ape - good for an interpreter with expressive manners. Unknown fossil - yes, an unknown "incognito" mechanism in human skin that works in mysterious ways.
Also, a horse, a workhorse probably for the amount of work.
Have a nice day!
VS
| | | | Andrea Brumma
Španělsko
Local time: 04:41
angličtina -> němčina
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| Chameleon / hybrid | Feb 21, 2012 |
Haha, I love that one.
I am a hybrid.
A chameleon for adapting to new subjects and challenges every day.
A hermit crab, because this is my personality - I love being alone and undisturbed.
A bookworm, because I love reading.
A smiling cat – when investing in CAT tools pays back instead of resulting in clients demanding unreasonable discounts or deadlines.
With “potential clients” trying to throw peanuts at me, I sometimes feel like a monkey, but th... See more Haha, I love that one.
I am a hybrid.
A chameleon for adapting to new subjects and challenges every day.
A hermit crab, because this is my personality - I love being alone and undisturbed.
A bookworm, because I love reading.
A smiling cat – when investing in CAT tools pays back instead of resulting in clients demanding unreasonable discounts or deadlines.
With “potential clients” trying to throw peanuts at me, I sometimes feel like a monkey, but the good thing is that I am not a monkey in a cage, but a free(lance) one that can reject those peanuts and look for huge and tasty bananas elsewhere. ▲ Collapse
| | | | David Wright
Rakousko
Local time: 04:41
němčina -> angličtina
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eats sh--- and sh--s sh---
or GIGO, to use a term form the early days of computing.
(actually I consider the translator to have skills that raise him/her not only above the level of animals but even above those of other humans - they only have to produce their stuff - we have to a) understand it and b) express it in a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LANGUAGE! )
| | | | Jennifer Forbes
Local time: 03:41
francouzština -> angličtina
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In memoriam
I was about to say cart horse, but I see someone else got there first. Think of poor, betrayed Boxer in Animal Farm ...
Slogging on,
Jenny
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Chun Un
Macao
Člen (2007)
angličtina -> čínština
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Very interesting poll question indeed...
| | | | Emma Goldsmith
Španělsko
Local time: 04:41
Člen (2004)
španělština -> angličtina
| Has Parrot checked out this poll? | Feb 21, 2012 |
I wonder what Parrot voted.
| | | | ikeda45
Local time: 11:41
Člen (2007)
angličtina -> japonština
I have a parrot myself and learned a lot about them. Parrots are highly sociable and can't stand to be alone.
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