Month: January 2015
I’d always thought that Spain was Europe’s premium open air museum / freakshow of disastrous political theory
Things people tell me
Irish break
Don’t piss on the wall
Gents, Level C, Royal Hants County Hospital, Winchester.
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The excellent Victoria Strauss of Writer Beware, dedicated to exposing literary scams, has discovered Author Translation. This agency appears to specialise in EN->ES at extremely low prices – 0.02$ per translated word is quoted. As Victoria notes, they find English a struggle, but the sample Spanish translation provided (grab) -of an Arthurian romance self-published by…
But Mr Fàbregas makes a reasonable case for Greece.
Towards the end of the war the Japanese generals went to Hirohito and said, “Emperor, unless we find new troops immediately we will have to surrender.” But a devilish light shone in the eyes of the occupant of the Chrysanthemum Throne, and he spoke defiantly, “Gentlemen, send the palace dwarves into action, and have them…
Here. I suppose the murder of Nicholas Walsh before he completed his pioneering translation into Irish of the New Testament may have alienated talent from the market.
The cobbler to his last and the gunner to his linstock (equivalents), but even Spanish is a struggle.
From Afferbeck Lauder’s great pioneering study of Meganesian lang and lit, Let stalk Strine: Aorta stop all these transistors from cummer ninner the country. Look what they doone to the weather. All this rine! Doan tell me it’s not all these transistors – an all these hydrigen bombs too. Aorta stoppem!
Here. I met a couple of slippered eastern gypsy ladies in Lidl (Barcelona) the other day. They were acquiring monstrous quantities of junk food with their begged euro coins, which they appeared not to be able to count for themselves. I explained that at Alcampo there were self-checkout machines which they could use for small…
“Well, you thee,” he lisped, “for yearth I thought that ethicth wath an Englith county.” Bad Muslim, fucking cool Muslim: vote Ahmed Aboutaleb (via). Rotterdam, probably the ugliest city in Western Europe, but in terms of linguistic expression second to none.
Here’s a splendid selection, with ditto commentary. The Good Lord’s distribution of blessings just ain’t equitable.
Great tunes, great doggerel, small simians