Looking forward to a more healthy environment in KudoZ discussion

If you could point out why an answer is incorrect and give the correct answer, it will be much more appreciated by others. I always believe that when we discuss an answer to a question here, we should always focus on the question itself. The discussion should be carried out in a civilized and matter-of-fact way. I do expect you know more about 赛珍珠 than I do as I know I know more than you in science area. However, how do you know that I don\'t know anything about 赛珍珠 or even do not know who she is while the matter of fact is that I read this particular book in its original English in 1986.

No one can guarantee that his/her answer is always right. That is why we usually have several answers to a question. That is the fun part of it and an important source for learning. Even someone gives an incorrect answer, that does not necessarily give anyone else the right to digress and ask whether the answerer knows anything about the subject because all the answers cannot be right at the same time.

I feel you are being too arrogant and aggressive, sometimes rude (令人恶心). Please remember, being arrogant will not get anyone anywhere no matter how knowledgeable he thinks he is.

When I was a graduate student in China in the later 1970\'s and early 80\'s, both my Master\'s and Ph.D. advisors were Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. My Ph.D. advisor was Director of Earth Science Division, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院地学部主任). They were very humble and modest and were respected by many. I think that\'s because the more one knows the more he feels he knows too little.

I refuse to get into any argument with people, still less a vendetta. My purpose of participating in the discussion here is to learn something from other colleagues and help while I can. I joined ProZ when they first started (Membership No. 1934). Previously, I could not afford the time as I worked a full time job at a university and did 110-140 translation projects at the same time annually as a side job. Now, I have decided to work for myself and have more time. So I want to learn more. I am not interested in any translation job offer here and do not bid on any of them. I am already too busy with approximately 250 higher paying projects annually and currently working on a 145,000 word casino website into Traditional Chinese. I am not competing with people for jobs here. So let\'s relax, concentrate on the intellectual part of the discussion and enjoy it.

The above observation was written as a reply to your comments without any animosity. I look forward to more discussion with you and other fellow translators so that we all benefit.



Here is the link to the KudoZ question under discussion:



http://www.proz.com/?sp=h&id=294753

Hi Betty, I think you misunderstood me here. I was not saying that \"Sorry for being neutral\" 令人恶心”. As I mentioned that you were sometimes rude, I was giving the example you said about some of our fellow translators whose mother tongue is not Chinese. I would not say you 令人恶心 even you put ten disagreements under my answers. That only indicates that you completely disagree with me, which is entirely normal.

The reason I felt you overreacted on that particular note is that after I looked at Richard\'s comments, the only thing I found was silly-sounding. To me, silly is the least offending among silly, dumb and stupid. Silly-sounding is even less offending than silly itself. If we add \"kind of\" and \"very\" before these words, you can form \"kind of silly\", \"silly\", \"very silly\". We can do the same thing with the other two words. Silly-sounding is about the least offending among the 10 of them. As I understand it, saying something or someone is silly-sounding is just a friendly way of expressing one\'s disagreement, especially among young people and friends.

Except this misunderstanding here, I think we in fact agree on most other things. So let\'s forget about this and try to answer more questions and agree, neutral and disagree as usual without taking it personally so that we can make the KudoZ area more enjoyable.