The Little Translator / Geschichte eines Übersetzers
Transblawg | 22. August 2007 — Once upon a time in Translatorland there lived a little Translator. Not a nasty, dirty, horrid little Translator such as you …
April Fool's Day/April, April!
Numerous blogs, mailing lists and newspapers are indulging in rather obvious April Fool's Day items. Here's the Urban Word of the Day:
I pity the fool In Mr. T-glish, a rhetoric comment equivalent to the English “I'd best not find out who it was.” I pity the fool who scratched my car.
That's just a genuine term chosen for the day. But somehow I know that the Nuremberg pets' home is not looking for a family to take the polar bear cub Knut - let's face it, unlike Fürth, Nuremberg was never part of Prussia.
However, the announcement that E-Bay wants to buy the ProZ website appeared on March 31st, although I'm not sure where. As a translator in Canada says under the ProZ entry: Wow! What a news - i am speachless…
And I suspect that the story at RollOnFriday about a lawyer who failed to proofread his profile properly is also true.
(Thanks to Chris)
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Knut, Flocke, and Co: the bear facts revealed/Eisbärmanie in Deutschland
Transblawg | 19. November 2008 — I have mentioned Flocke here before, but it was only at the beginning of November that I got round to seeing her. It was fairly s…
Nuremberg Zoo/Tiergarten Nürnberg
Transblawg | 24. März 2008 — It's just been announced that the polar bear cub Flocke will be on public view from April 9. Here is a guide for visitors - after …
Profiles / Profile
Transblawg | 16. Januar 2007 — Enigmatic Mermaid found Jackie Bowman's profile. Here are the conditions. 1. You are not now, and never have been, a …
Interpreter's oath/Dolmetschereid
Transblawg | 13. Januar 2012 — Here's a curious question from an ITI member. This is the interpreter's oath, which is taken by all interpreters in courts in Engl…
Weekly terminology roundup / Terminologiefragen der Woche
Transblawg | 7. August 2007 — This isn't a weekly terminology roundup at all, it's a test to see if I want to do something like this. What I wonder is, if …
Another newish translation blog/US-Übersetzerweblog
Transblawg | 21. September 2010 — Translation Commentator is a weblog by Rosene Zaros that has been running for some time, mainly with comments on the translation i…
Dutch weblogs / Niederländische Blogs
Transblawg | 30. Juni 2006 — There’s a thread in the non-English sections of ProZ, in non-English, about translators’ weblogs (Blogs van vertalers). This …
You darn fool/Sie zusammengeflickter Narr
Transblawg | 24. Juli 2008 — Rudolf Hermstein: Chandler verschandelt, oder Das luftgetriebene Riesenhorn In 1976, when Hellmuth Karasek's translation of Raymon…
Cat scratch death/Durch Katze totgekratzt
Transblawg | 21. Mai 2006 — The Wiltshire coroner comments: A man died days after he was scratched by his family’s playful pet cat, an inquest has hear…
