Off-topic this week, I came across this remarkable headline: To beat the traffic problem in Trabzon scalpel was the first step. The subhead reinterprets the story to the disadvantage of the surgeon: Traffic problems in Trabzon take the first step was to shoot scalpel. Contacts there tell me that growing trade with Georgia and Russia…
Galen is an indispensable early source for historians of the walnut, the hazelnut, the testicle, and so forth, but this does not explain why galen is used in Swedish to describe a disturbed person.
In an FT piece a couple of days ago (via) we learn that “As Benoy discovered to its cost, interpreters need to be close to the subject matter as well as competent linguistically”. I didn’t catch the Zapatero Snakeoil Show chez les Obama the other day, but I did see most of Hillary’s slot on…