{"id":862,"date":"2019-06-18T10:48:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T09:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/?p=862"},"modified":"2020-10-28T17:56:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T16:56:18","slug":"behind-the-screen-richard-peters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/?p=862&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Behind the screen: Richard Peters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this issue: Richard Peters, Managing Director, Editor and Translator<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are the most difficult words to translate?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>I have a few bugbears \u2013 words that can mean so many different things depending on the context. One really tricky one is the German word \u201cnachhaltig\u201d, which often gets translated into English in a knee-jerk fashion as \u201csustainable\u201d but can mean anything from \u201clasting\u201d or \u201cpermanent\u201d to \u201cconsistent\u201d or even \u201ceffective\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is your preferred workspace like?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The kind of work I do often requires real focus, so I need peace and quiet to home in on precisely the right turn of phrase for every sentence of every text. But I couldn\u2019t bear to work alone all day long! It\u2019s great to share an office with my colleagues: not only do we bounce ideas off one another, we can also just have a laugh and a joke to release the tension from all that concentrating on the words in front of us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What do you like most about your job?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>I truly love the breadth of subject matter I am confronted with in corporate communications. On any given day I\u2019ll be dealing with a letter to shareholders, a gripping story for a customer magazine, cutting-edge scientific research, and catchy slogans for a company\u2019s latest products or services. All of which, of course, allows me to delight in wordsmithery!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dogs or cats?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>I\u2019m a fan of all animals (and plants!), but the closest thing we had to pets when I was growing up was a giant population of frogs in the pond in our back garden.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Audiobook or paperback?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Although there is something captivating about certain voices, I prefer the feel of turning the pages myself<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tea or coffee?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>I\u2019m half English and half Austrian, so it\u2019s only fitting that I like both \u2013 but generally I prefer coffee in the morning and tea in the evening.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago \u2013 has it been that long already? \u2013 we ran a series of short interviews with the people at the heart of Klein Wolf Peters. Now it\u2019s time to hear from them again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[97,98,99,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}