Here, < Dick Hudson < again < Language Log. Your stammering linguistic runt of a host thinks they’re all wrong, and recommmends self-inflicted deep-vein trepanning as an alternative preferable to sentence diagramming taught by the hairy-palmed spawn of teacher training colleges. SD’s rather like warfare: a discipline that sometimes occurs to the old as beneficial…
Over at TottenhamNews.org, via Improbable Research, which cites some choice samples. Curiously, while the registrant’s address is said to be just round the corner from Ankara’s gloriously Martian Altınpark, the phone number is Dutch, and the only Turkish news that I’ve ever heard come out of Tottenham, north London, is of this planet’s most splendid…
Lars Bjørn Hanssen > Diario Sur (> Teresa Aguilar > Carlos Ferrero): The Diputación de Málaga gave €20,000 to help Loving Books publish an Atlas ilustrado de la provincia de Málaga; Alejandro Villén Real at Loving Books gave very little of that to an apparently unemployed receptionist for the English translation; no quality control was…
Take two adjacent consonants and a luscious little lightly-seasoned meat pie and this kind of thing is inevitable. For all I know Spanish cannibals scavenging at Camden, TN on March 5 1963 baked brawn: Take two Buttocks and hang them up two or three dayes, then take them down and dip them into hot Water,…
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…
Following on the previous instalment, Lenox has sent over this list, knowing full well that the phonology will mean nothing to me, for: «Si tú quisieras, Bacc[á]ra,contigo me casaría;daréte en arras y dotea Córdoba y a Sevilla.»«Casada soy, rey Trebots,casada soy, que no viuda;el Lenox que a mí me tienemuy grande bien me quería.»(Abenámar y…
Colin‘s letter to the Galicians: Ten years or so ago, I sent a personal letter to the Director of the said Rías Baixas Tourist Board, offering to translate all their promotional material for nowt. I never even had the courtesy of a reply. But, anyway, here’s how their English material turned out, absent my help.…
That’s what Google Translate says. Now, bar fights with statistical algorithms tend to be step-by-step procedures leading to human humiliation, but I think Google Images agrees with me in this case that frikis are gross idiots while geeks are still confused but neat. Here side-by-side are search links and the top three meme trees for…