about time
OMG guyz, someone asked me this in my comments:
before i will hire you, i need to know the following:
1) when time is fleeting, can you still translate it?
2) what if time has expired?
3) do you tranlate past-, or present time?
4) what is your experience in translating time-warps?
5) time = money. can you translate money too?
6) do you usually trans late, or early?
7) if i´d be ahead of my time, how would you translate me?
Thank you for asking me these things, because you want to hire me. I will answer them now.
1) When I went to school I had a lot of English classes. I learned about symbolism and personification and metaphors and similes and anthropomophization. I don’t know which this one is, but I think it is a personification - time cannot flee! Time always goes the same time, so it can’t run away (to flee is to run away quickly because of danger). Time can only go as fast as its fastest unit, so basically one second is the fastest it can ever go. If one second passes, I can translate that too. So the answer is yes.
2) I was thinking of how to explain this. I am going to use a simile! Time is like the universe. It is endless! It always goes on and it always goes into the future and never back, so it will always be new. Basically that means that time can never expire, because this moment (and this, and this) is happening right now, and it can’t get old!
3) This is an interesting question. Time is always the same unit, past and present. So if you ask me about time in the past, it will follow the same principle as time in the present. That means I can translate both - past time and present time.
4) One time I had to do a big presentation in class. It was about movies in the horror genre. During this presentation I made the dance that is called “time-warp” to symbolize a movie that is a horror film. The big thing was that someone had to guess what movie it is from the dance (it was “Rocky Horror Picture Show”). Someone guessed it, I think because I did it correctly. That is my experience with time-warp, but if it is important for you I can do it some more.
5) Money is really different to time. Money has so many units and everyone has a different one, and some places have the same. I can not translate money, but if you want to I can look for someone who can do that.
6) I can do both. Usually I do early, because I think it is more serious and polite to do.
7) This question is like the first. It’s a metaphor. You cannot physically be ahead of time, because time is always now, and you can’t be after now. If you would be after now, you would be in the future, and basically you can’t go to the future because it only exists after now, and you have to wait for now to be over. It is a really difficult concept to understand, but if you want to know more about this I can try to explain it to you.
Thank you so much for these questions, please think about hiring me, I would be so happy!
PS: you commented in the wrong box.