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The economic case for fucked translation

Via LS an anonymous cartoon of the gulf between what we (would like to) think we have said and what we (are understood to) have actually said: Why don’t we say what we think? Why do the inventors of magnificent flying machines gibber like madmen? Why, in our case, do excellent Spanish bars produce hilarious…

Male genital depilation and the End of the World

Better a vineyard than a field of weeds on Judgement Day.

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…

The floor of the church, in the form of a Latin cross, is essentially Romanesque, with cruise or transept and walls closing in this style

There is a long history of the cross-fertilisation of marine and ecclesiastical architecture, from Jesus’ boat-church on the Sea of Galilee (Mark 4:1: “And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and…

Should American-Spanish political interpreters know about Methodism?

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…

Wellington vs Glasgow Rangers’ International Brigadiers, and the origins of “No pasarán” and “No surrender”

Nominations for the noblest British fighter in a Spanish war, and speculative revisions of the history of two idiot idioms.

Spanish mis-translation of Paolo Giordano The solitude of prime numbers

But where does the buck stop?

Homeless Jonah about to be devoured by a great 100€-plated fish

But will an ecclesiastical trawler turn it into cat food first?

Mural at the foot of the Carmelite church on Monte Carmelo, Barcelona.