Don’t throw the baby out with the bath-water. Or, go easy on the decluttering
January will soon be here and it’ll be time to make yet another New Year’s Resolution to declutter. But sometimes it pays to be selective
Words to Good Effect
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Brainy bilinguals: language learning makes for snappier decision-making
I spend a lot of time singing the praises of language learning and trying to encourage school pupils to keep up their language studies. So
When the Poet Died: on translating remembrance
Alexander Anichkin’s blog post, When the Poet Died, was written a few months ago (June 2011) but makes timely reading today, Remembrance Sunday. Alexander’s post starts from his
Punctuation botheration (2)
It seems Birmingham isn’t the only city having bother with place name apostrophes, as shown by the Londonist website’s post on Should King’s Cross Have
What’s in a name: spelling “Gaddafi”
The “As a Linguist” blog has a new post, Wait, who just died?, on the problematic pronunciation and spelling of Colonel Gaddafi’s name. I’ve been “translating” his name
Floundering in fonts
How do graphic designers do it? I’m working on a new logo, for personal rather than business use. Or rather, Zoë Shuttleworth of Rude Goose
Ge tem, mona mour…(?) Punctuation (and spelling) botheration, Italian style
It seems that Italy too has got problems with spelling and punctuation, though in this case at graffiti rather than local authority level. The text
Punctuation botheration (as resolved by Victor Borge)
UK local authorities seem to have a fraught relationship with punctuation and spelling. Birmingham City Council decided in January 2009 to remove the possessive apostrophe
Urgent. It’s a relative concept
A client phoned me at 4pm the other day (Tuesday 4 October) asking if I could translate 2800 words (12 “translation pages”) on The International Monetary System
Macs. Thank you.
I’ve been a Macintosh user since 1987 — the photo above shows my very first Mac and the one I’m using now. I bought the