Scots again/Schotten schon wieder
am 04.03.2008 von TransblawgIt always surprises me how many Scots there are in Bavaria (see earlier …
Ulster Scots
Transblawg / Further to the last-but-one entry, here is a page on Ulster Scots, with a test, audio clips, poetry and other goodies....
Scots language archive goes online
Transblawg / The BBC reports: Canny Scots create muckle archive. It’s St. Andrew’s Day, of course. bq. The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) has been put together by the University of Glasgow and has taken three years to compile. Comprising.
Wikipedia in Scots
Transblawg / There is a Wikipedia in Scots: Scots Law, quhiles nae bein unique, differs frae Inglis law quhairby it follaes Roman (Ceevil) Law in mony weys an sae is closer tae the ceevil codes o the Continent nor Inglis Law is. For example, Scots Law disna dist
Scots / Schotten
Transblawg / I sometimes wonder if the Scots know how they are used in German advertising. (Note tartan paper on wall inside shop).
Scots law blog/Weblog zu schottischem Recht
Transblawg / Edinburgh Law Schools’ Scots Law News is almost a blog. But it doesn’t give links. Section 532 is a Review of the Year of our Lord 2005. 2005 was the year that introduced our readers, not only to natural disasters (Nos 423, 495), but al
Bayerisches Oberstes Landesgericht to be abolished
Transblawg / The Bavarian parliament has finally voted to abolish the Bayerisches Oberstes Landesgericht. (Süddeutsche Zeitung report) Any German Land is permitted to have such a court, which takes some of the work from the Bundesgerichtshof (see earlier ent
Haro! Guernsey Bar website
Transblawg / For those on or near the islands tired of English/Welsh law, Scots law, Northern Irish law, Irish law, Isle of Man law and Jersey law: Guernsey Bar is a new website introducing Guernsey law and lawyers. The purpose of this...
Scots language on Scottish parliament website/Schottisches Dialekt auf Webseiten des schottischen Parlaments
Transblawg / I found this via the Usenet group sci.lang (which I don’t usually read): Walcome til the Scottish Pairlament wabsite The Scottish Pairlament is here for tae represent aw Scotland’s folk. We want tae mak siccar that as mony folk as...
Sexual breach of the peace / Sex mit Fahrrad
Transblawg / Judging from Google, not only Werner Siebers is baffled by a Telegraph report: Die spinnen, die Engländer. Weil ein Mann Sex mit seinem Fahrrad hatte - wie auch immer das befriedigen kann - muss er sich jetzt vor Gericht verantworten. 1993 mus
German legalese
Transblawg / In an earlier entry I linked to a site showing how to create a long German legal sentence. I believe that must have been a plagiarism, because jurabilis now quotes a file with that material in it as being by...
Katrina and Rita / Was wir lernen können
Transblawg / Craig Morris (see earlier entry) was born in New Orleans and lives in Freiburg im Breisgau. Some people believe (apparently wrongly) that he used to have a translation weblog. On September 2, an adapted version of an article of his...
Books for translators / Englische Bücher für Übersetzer
Transblawg / Multilingual Matters publish books and journals for translators and interpreters. They have addresses in Britain and the USA, or you can order from their website at a 20% discount. I wasn’t aware of them before, but they have some authors I
Urn burial continued / Friedhofszwang wird vielleicht aufgehoben
Transblawg / Following my earlier entry, I now read that the obligation under German law for ashes to be buried in cemeteries may be repealed. Apparently Germany, Austria and Slovakia are the only three countries in the EU with this Friedhofszwang. (Sounds...
Vampires in Birmingham/Urban legends
Transblawg / Random Acts of Reality reports on using the phonetic alphabet (apparently the London Ambulance Service use the NATO alphabet, see earlier entry). The comments on the story mention a rumour going around Newham that ‘there is someone going around
Dykes on bikes and judges on dictionaries
Transblawg / (See also earlier entry) IPKAT reports on the evidence relied on when the application to register ‘Dykes on bikes’ was refused. Apparently there were over 400 pages of submissions, but the US Patent and Trademark Office relief on two dict
Semicolon: for or agin?
Transblawg / I mentioned the San Francisco semicolon story in an earlier entry; now Derek Thornton, on flefo.org, reports that the Financial Times has a semicolon survey /September 16, so still online now). ”You’re kidding,” said Ann Keatings, a
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