August 2011 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Presenting authorial & editorial notes in a Kindle edition of a 16th century bilingual text

Hints gratefully received…

Worst ever Spanish covers of English-language songs?

I haven’t talked to any of the perpetrators, but I have little doubt that the principal cause of what we regard as fucked translation is a misunderstanding as to its function: whereas English-speakers expect to encounter a linguistic resource, the aim of Romance-dialect-speaking businesses, politicians and civil servants in providing English translation is often symbolic…

¿Cómo se llama una sandwichería para los verdaderamente desesperados?

Hamburgencias, says the most frustrated and unloved naming consultant on the planet.

Augustine attacks Jerome’s Vulgate for diverging from traditional fucked translations

Here: A certain bishop, one of our brethren, having introduced in the church over which he presides the reading of your version, came upon a word in the book of the prophet Jonah, of which you have given a very different rendering from that which had been of old familiar to the senses and memory…

Month: August 2011

Presenting authorial & editorial notes in a Kindle edition of a 16th century bilingual text

Worst ever Spanish covers of English-language songs?

¿Cómo se llama una sandwichería para los verdaderamente desesperados?

Augustine attacks Jerome’s Vulgate for diverging from traditional fucked translations

The virgin of Rocallaura is back

Ear, ear

Lenguas entrelazadas is back!

Richard Hawkins, a Catholic convert?

Cameron to use whales to stop the violence?

Separating egg yolks from whites