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Thread poster: V Fernandez
V Fernandez
V Fernandez
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Mar 2, 2021



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Arianne Farah
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Canada
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English to French
Why not :-) Mar 2, 2021

I'm already on discord because I play FFXIV. Cassandra#0818

 
jyuan_us
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I received a lot of invitations to join various groups on Discord Mar 2, 2021

I was always wondering why they use a name that has such a strongly negative sense as its platform name. To my non-native ears, it is just a ridiculous name.

[Edited at 2021-03-03 05:42 GMT]


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Tom in London
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Robert Forstag
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And to my native ear as well Mar 3, 2021

jyuan_us wrote:

I was always wondering why they use a name that has such a strongly negative sense as its platform name. To my non-native ears, it is just a ridiculous name.

[Edited at 2021-03-03 05:42 GMT]


Very odd choice indeed.


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Arianne Farah
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Canada
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English to French
What's in a name Mar 3, 2021

I think the name stems from the fact that online players use Discord to chat rather than game servers because the rules of conduct aren't as strict - ie. when games started banning players for trash talking, someone created a voice chat program that allowed 'discord' and it simply took off.

 
Tom in London
Tom in London
United Kingdom
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Italian to English
Really? Mar 3, 2021

V Dalrymple wrote:

Hi All,

Last year, I created a Discord server specifically for professional translators to mingle and talk in one place, share ideas, help each other and just plain socialize.



Just taken a look at this. It seems to be some sort of gaming platform for people who have nothing else to do. It comes with a long and somewhat authoritarian list of rules. Scary and unpleasant. I will not be taking this any further.


Adieu
 
V Fernandez
V Fernandez
United Kingdom
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Mar 3, 2021



[Subject edited by staff or moderator 2021-03-29 06:27 GMT]


 
Vivianhu
Vivianhu
Australia
Thanks for the invitation Mar 4, 2021

I hope to gain some useful information from it.

 
Tom in London
Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:13
Member (2008)
Italian to English
I didn't tell you could do this Mar 4, 2021

V Dalrymple wrote:

It's great that you had a look anyway.



What's not so great is that even though I have deleted your application from my system, you have given yourself the right to start sending me emails. I have set my email client to delete them immediately -so welcome to oblivion; I will never see them. But you shouldn't be doing that. It's extremely annoying.

[Edited at 2021-03-04 23:25 GMT]


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