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Poll: Have you become more tech-savvy since you started working in the language industry?
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Angie Garbarino
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It depends Feb 25

Christopher Schröder wrote:


You’re a boomer by age, and also by nature if their number one characteristic is feigning ignorance for reasons that are far from apparent 😂

A bit like my grandmother pretending she couldn’t operate a cash machine.


Baby Boomer starts in 1946 and ends in 1964. Before 1946 there is the "silent generation"

I am Baby Boomer by age, yes, not sure about Tom.

PS. The Silent Generation, also known as the Traditionalist Generation, is the Western demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the baby boomers. The generation is generally defined as people born from 1928 to 1945.[1] By this definition and U.S. Census data, there were 23 million Silents in the United States as of 2019.[2]

[Edited at 2024-02-25 10:54 GMT]

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Yes, then No Feb 25

Buying my first computer (running CP/M) allowed me to start translating full-time. I was very eager to learn features and tricks of WordStar, a leading word processor at the time and also acquired elementary programming skills in BASIC. I even developed a one-line routine to trick my dot matrix printer into producing letter-quality text. I catalogued my entire library using DBase, a notoriously user-unfriendly database manager (you were presented with a blank screen with only a single dot as a c... See more
Buying my first computer (running CP/M) allowed me to start translating full-time. I was very eager to learn features and tricks of WordStar, a leading word processor at the time and also acquired elementary programming skills in BASIC. I even developed a one-line routine to trick my dot matrix printer into producing letter-quality text. I catalogued my entire library using DBase, a notoriously user-unfriendly database manager (you were presented with a blank screen with only a single dot as a cursor). When Windows became common, I switched to WordPerfect and developed macros to help me work more efficiently. I remained eager to become more proficient at effectively using a PC, especially after Microsoft produced an entire suite of productivity applications.
Skipping ahead to the late 1990s when I turned 50: A switch apparently went off in my brain and I became increasingly uninterested in software and computing technology. Recently my PC developed an intractable (to me) glitch, and rather than struggle with a solution, I simply bought a new computer. ▲ Collapse
 
Christopher Schröder
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🤷‍♂️ Feb 25

Angie Garbarino wrote:
Baby Boomer starts in 1946 and ends in 1964. Before 1946 there is the "silent generation"

I don’t think Tom is that old but I may be wrong. Either way he will have heard the term “baby boom” used for much of his life.

If he had said he didn’t find it helpful to pigeonhole people based on age then I would have agreed, because we are all different. But he didn’t.

If he had said he didn’t understand many young people’s love of memes, I would also have agreed. But he didn’t.

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Tom in London
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Not me Feb 25

I have nothing to say about Chris. Not in public anyway.

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Yes Feb 26

Using CAT tools, the usual Microsoft products and the Internet every day is bound to make you a bit more tech-savvy. I'm still naturally technophobic though.

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