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Déformation professionnelle
- access_denied 17y agoCan we agree on the notion, that suffering from déformation professionelle is generally a bad thing?
- byrneseyeview 17y agoNo. Someone whose job requires them to plan ahead and think rationally might end up carrying those traits over to private life. It can be used pejoratively, but plenty of jobs require some very desirable characteristics. Someone who goes into sales and ends up being cheery and outgoing wouldn't be a disaster.
- framiere 17y agoAs a frenchman, I use it from time to time. However I never heard it in the US, is this saying somewhat known/used ?
- _pius 17y agoI'm from the United States and I'd never heard of it in my life until this morning. :)
- CalmQuiet 17y agoAs an American with French heritage, I sometimes long for some of the fluid eloquence that French expressions provide. Alas, we are mostly left to use Americanism's like, "My bad."
- gojomo 17y ago'My bad' may have come to the US via basketball player Manute Bol, from the Sudan, whose native language is Dinka. (Though, 'my bad' could mainly be an artifact of broken English.) See: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002693.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002693.h...
- dan_sim 17y agoI speak french and I can say that it's a very common expression. It is often used in a funny way. Like if a receptionist answers the phone saying the name of the company (like she does all day) even though she's home. She will probably say "déformation professionnelle".
- framiere 17y agoWe also use it to apologize when being rude without meaning it. Example : you make a remark without really thinking of it because of your professional habits (ex: you should be doing things that way, or going straight to limit-cases or counter-examples) that would made sense in a professional context, but that is not acceptable outside. You would apologize saying "I am sorry, it is a déformation professionelle"
- ovi256 17y agoI had a bad case of this when I told someone I'd like to spend 0.5 person-days hanging out with them. Yup, I'm an engineer. Planning got to my head.
- kirubakaran 17y agoI don't know if this counts: After a really long stretch of coding, I once tried to drag the mouse pointer to click a physical button, CD eject button on desktop tower, and was confused that it didn't work. In my defense, the tower was right next to the monitor. My friend teases me about that to this day. By the way, have any of you thought that talking to someone is interacting with their repl?
- gommm 17y agoCool I'm not the only one who did that before... Thanks from my ego
- JBiserkov 17y agoAfter years of using mostly a laptop, I had to work on a crowded desk, with only a keyboard. After a few minutes of coding I wanted to point at sth, so I started to fondle the desk in front of the keyboard in a desperate attempt to use the non-existent touchpad. After the 5th time I realized what I was doing and said to myself "profesionalna deformacia". there was a mouse, but not enough horizontal space
- kirubakaran 17y agoTakeaway : Think twice before you date a hardworking urologist.
- juanpablo 17y agoIn Spanish is also a common expression (at least among some professionals)
- Hexstream 17y agoRelated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
- a-priori 17y agoThanks, I didn't know this had a name. I've definitely had this from playing Tetris, but also from board games like Go and even jigsaw puzzles. I thought it was just a quirk of my silly brain.
- Connardo 17y agoCool! Another French word to overuse!
- HSO 17y agoyou mean like the french version of your alias? ;)
- darkxanthos 17y agoCan someone spell this out phonetically in English? I'm just learning French. :)
- barry-cotter 17y agodayformaseeyon professseeyonel
- jibiki 17y agoThat looks right. It's worth noting that the "a" sound in the first word is pronounced like the vowel in the word "spa" rather than the vowel in "mass" or "maim".
- zupatol 17y agoI speak french, but I wouldn't know how to spell it phonetically in english. However this text to speech site pronounces it very well: http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo.html http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo...
- 10ren 17y agoThis is off-topic, but... I wonder if you could verify for me whether the "French-Alice" voice on that site pronounces this name correctly (please): Antoine de Saint Exupéry I've always been curious how it's said, but whenever I run into native french speakers, I forget to ask. I found that site a while back, but I can't judge how accurate it is. Many thanks!
- zupatol 17y agoOh I saw your question only today. Alice's pronunciation is correct, but I say the name slightly difference. She pronunces 'Ex' like ecks, while I say eggs.
- gurtwo 17y agoUnless I see a convincing citation, I strongly doubt this expression is originally french. As said in other comments, equivalent expressions exist in Spanish, Italian or German, where they are frequently used. Conversely, I find interesting that very common expressions in the english language, like "procrastination", are almost unknown in Europe (saved the UK and IE). Spanish, for example, has the perfectly correct term "procrastinación", but it's very seldom used.