Paris Review interviews online
am 15.11.2004 von TransblawgThe complete Paris Review interviews with Writers at Work are going to be online, starting with the 1950s. You can read the beginning and see/download a PDF file …
Spelling book aims for high sales
Transblawg / Lynne Truss’ publishers have now published Vivian Cook’s ‘Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary or why can’t anybody spell?’ (I pasted that. I can’t be bothered to misspell). Amazon.co.uk already has a five-star re…
London School of Economics Report
Handakte WebLAWg / ICANN has been provided with the LSE’s review of the Generic Names Supporting Organization [Report, Annexes]. This report will be used to inform ICANN’s effort to develop detailed proposals for improving the GNSO’s structures and pr…
Translating poetry / Das Übersetzen von Gedichten
Transblawg / This is the second time I've read this kind of thing in the TLS in recent weeks. This time it'll be online for a few days more, in a review of Ted Hughes, Selected Translations, edited by Daniel Weissbort: Daniel Weissbort, who edited this s…
Software for less plain English
Transblawg / The program WhiteSmoke will ‘enrich’ your English. The demo on the site shows how you can start with a simple sentence like ‘I admire your work’ and finish with a strangely un-English one like ‘I greatly appreciate your…
Websters online dictionary - Rosetta edition
Transblawg / What on earth is this ‘dictionary’? Here it is on translator. There are seven pictures of translators, none of which are me. Very bizarre. If you click on ‘references’, you are taken to amazon.com. We know ‘Webster’…
Rejected in a hurry
Aktenvermerk / Who says that the law review article consideration process is slow? Brian Leiter writes about how Ohio State law professor Christopher Fairman’s article was rejected by the Kansas Law Review in only 25 minutes. Apparently, all it took for the e…
Review of the (legal) year
Transblawg / The Times Online also has David Pannick’s review of 2005: Cartoon of the year was by Pat Byrnes in The New Yorker. One lawyer says to another, “Remember, we can only afford to do all this pro bono because of how much anti bono pays”…
Links remain legal/Mein Parteibuch und Links
Transblawg / It was no surprise to anyone when the Berlin Landgericht decided this week that it is permissible for a website to name and link another site and to name someone who takes part in public exchange of opinions. The German American Law Journal Weblog re…
Style guides and law review
Transblawg / Mark Liberman at Language Log writes of law review and style guides. This is useful. I know that law reviews are written by law students and that it’s a big thing on your c.v. if you are good enough to...…
German lawyer in interview with TorrentFreak
Handakte WebLAWg / In an interview with TorrentFreak, Christian Solmecke, a lawyer in Germany who defends people in Germany accused by Big 4 record companies of unauthorized file sharing, answers questions on the state of the law in Germany. Among other things he point…
English blogger in Paris loses job/Englische Bloggerin gekündigt
Transblawg / Die ‘petite anglaise’, Fremdsprachenkorrespondentin bei einer englischen Wirtschaftsprüferfirma in Paris und heimliche aber vielgelesene Bloggerin, hat ihre Stelle verloren - wie in englischen Zeitschriften und ihrem Blog jetzt beric…
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