- I don't like food. I don't like cooking, and in general, I don't like eating. Occasionally I'll enjoy really good food at a restaurant, or some really flavorful fresh produce, but if I could survive without eating I would.
- I'm a packrat. I love to collect and organize things, and I love to have a complete set of something. I do give myself space limits, though, and frequently purge in order to keep my house from overflowing.
- I memorize things easily -- often without trying. Other things, I just remember exactly where to find the information which is almost as good.
- I'm very shy socially. Many people don't believe this because I try so hard to do things to make up for it, but meeting new people is incredibly hard for me.
- I like to make origami. Many people, when they see my origami collection (or my crocheting, or cross stitching or any number of other things I do) say they'd never have the patience to do that. I respond that it's not patience that accomplished them, but nervous energy -- I can't sit still.
- I think hedgehogs are some of the cutest animals in the world, and I know how to say hedgehog in over 40 languages.
- For my job, I get to do English adaptations for several manga series. When they're first translated, depending on the skill of the translator, the books are more or less written in Engrish. It's my job to smooth out the grammar, throw in some slang, and generally make it sound like native English. The hardest things to do are puns--sometimes the translator doesn't even try and just says, "Insert pun here." It's also tough to know what to do with phrases that just sound dumb in English like, "I will show you the power of my Justice!" (BTW: I work on +Anima, Silver Diamond, Dazzle, GetBackers, and Kyo Kara Maoh)
As for tagging somebody else to do this, everybody who reads my blog and has a blog of their own has already done it, so I guess it's a moot point.
4 comments:
I always wonder about the puns in the Asterix comics. It must be hard to come up with things in all the different languages that they get translated into. ("What happened to the lettuce?" "It bolted.")
Thanks for sharing. I liked reading all that. I was hesitant to tag anyone because I know it's a pain to do that kind of thing.--K
Pretty much, I just pick one of the words in the pun and then find an English pun that deals with that. If there are any clues in the picture to show what they're punning about, I'll use that as inspiration too.
Since you like hedgehogs, you might like this.
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