Carles Miró’s new blog links to the defunct fum i estalzí, which I also used to read, and which carried Johnson’s salutory tag: “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.” Money also drives translation projects, and only thieves and fools cost and conduct them in a way that lacks clear and defensible…
No 31 in this New York Times collection of strange street signs. My impression is that the Chinese are ahead, but it seems hard to criticise them for this: huge efforts have been made over the past decade to make a previously sternly monolingual country more accessible to foreigners; the effort is laudable and the…
No translations at all here, not even for Spanish-speaking residents. That Ripoll’s romanesque is of international renown is not of the slightest interest to the peasant ethnocrats in charge of the town and its tourism.
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