I could whinge about the Norway report, the hyper-urgent and unintelligble and extremely LONG academic article I'm translating and editing on stress in Swiss civil servants (yeah, right ( Read more... )

In the year 2007 I resolve to:
Slap stupid people in the head.

Get your resolution here.

Blame byslantedlight

Hee

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world BrenK didn't exist.

Which movie was this quote from?

And in other news, Dear Ma left yesterday (note icon for the occasion)

And while I'm spamming (just to show off the ICONSES)...

... I have an issue with msn messenger.

See, in French, it says 'parti(e) manger', which means 'gone to eat'. But the English version says 'out to lunch'.

Bad translation there.

(now, which icon....)

So, I should have been doing lots of things. Then I started browsing some old photos ( Read more... )

Mininisoo wondered, in an exchange of mails, how much you can / should change / improve / add to stuff when translating (or editing or report writing), and I told her this one one of my soapboxes.

( Well... here goes )

It seems as though the World In General is in 'oooo let's have this translated / edited' mode. I mean - I'm swamped but so are all the other translators and editors I know ( Read more... )

Was just packing for a couple of nights in Lyon. Not a major operation, but when checking I had my passport, I found...

... a packet of seeds neatly inserted in it. I'd looked everywhere for them too. Even thought I'd forgotten the tarragon and bought another packet. Heh ( Read more... )

Blame byslantedlight. This is a meme (no, really?) where somebody gives you a letter, and you think of ten words and what they conjure up. Mine was S.

Anybody want to play? Just ask me for a letter (and no, I won't give anybody 'X'. Well, maybe...

( Here's mine )

Freetown, and then back to sea. But the star of this bit is the tin of cocoa.

They also get news of a British ship sinking. Fred also 'exchanges confidences' with a mate about missing his family. Very blokish. He also gets an admirer of his sketching.

( Here we go again )