To the extent that she is not merely chucking us clickbait, Elena Horrillo’s piece on supposedly untranslatable Spanish expressions suggests she hasn’t read the English Wikipedia article, some of which has been translated into Spanish. Translating difficult expressions, sayings and proverbs like those cited was already a minor industry in the late Middle Ages (anyone…
Roll your mouse over this copy-paste from CiberPaís, which copy-pasted from whichever MT tool they’re on (via the excellent Malaprensa): Hasta ahora, la ciudad de Cupertino devolvía el 50% de los impuestos que recibía de Apple por las ventas de la empresa. En el futuro, la ciudad solo devolverá el 35% de esas tasas. The…
This has been down the tube a few times, but I still find it quite noteworthy that neither the El País theatre critic Javier Vallejo nor the Madrid Círculo de Bellas Artes, hosting the show, manage to copy the name of Heinrich von Kleist’s protagonist correctly. Anyone would think they don’t give a monkey’s. Maybe…
Conjecture: In writing about insidious Albion, El País and their Spanish colleagues faithfully copy-paste Wikiclichés except when they come to proper nouns including an “h”, when dyslexic Anglophobia is allowed free rein: Celtic difícilmente volverá a ganar la Copa de Europa. Ya se sabe también que últimamente no es una heroicidad conquistar el Celtic Park.…
Yesterday the Catalan government mounted some kind of co-branding (brand leeching, if you prefer) spectacle with the Japanese ambassador to Spain, which seems to have been designed to encourage the local public to contribute money to Japanese reconstruction and the Japanese to empathise with Catalan nationalist aspirations. Much was made of the virtues of industry…
When even copying is too hard: ‘Foreing Parts’ gana el premio DocsBarcelona a la mejor películaEl premio TV-3 de Derechos Humanos fue para un film sobre las matanzas de los Jemeres Rojos La película Foreign Parts de los directores Véréna Paravel y Paul Sniadecki ganó ayer el premio DocsBarcelona a la Mejor Película del Festival…
