Sudoku arrives in Germany / Zahlen und Ziffern
am 08.12.2005 von http://transblawg.euThe public prosecutor’s department in Bielefeld explains how to phone the right …
U.S. Department of State
Handakte WebLAWg / I’ve been visiting well-known federal government sites lately, to see if they have anything new to offer. The Department of State is a huge repository of useful information on this country’s international relations. I’ve been vis
Integration or else/Integrationskurse für Ausländer
Transblawg / Promoting Germany’s Language Melting Pot - Deutsche Welle article The courses on German language and life don’t sound bad, of course. But what if you don’t play along? It’s up to the state immigration authorities to decide whe
Quality control and self-revision/Qualitätssicherung und Überprüfen der eigenen Arbeit
Transblawg / On Sonja Tomašković’s Translator’s Blog, there is an interesting entry on quality assurance for translators. In Germany, we usually associate that with the DIN norm for translators, DIN 2345. (There are two Austrian norms too).
Zwei auf Augenhöhe
RA-Blog / Kai Diekmann von “the largest German newspaper” hat George W. Bush interviewt. Q You will visit Germany in July. What would you — did Angela Merkel ask what you would like to see in Germany? THE PRESIDENT: It’s really intere
Translation weblog Oversetter
Transblawg / I have just discovered that Nick Rosenthal of Salford Translations Ltd. has a weblog called Oversetter. Nick was once the Jerry Pournelle of the ITI, with his column Nick’s Attic (or something like that) in the Bulletin. Let’s hope for m
Mothers Day/Muttertag
Transblawg / Today is the fourth Sunday in Lent and so it is Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday in Britain. I wasn’t aware of that, nor that in Germany and American Mother’s Day is on 8 May (and 29 May in France)....
Satire in Central Europe
Transblawg / Here’s some German satire that went down in Austria like a lead balloon. A couple of years ago, Matthias Schindler wrote a satirical entry ostensibly advising people not to read Udo Vetter’s law blog: Jeder unbedarfte Leser begibt sich au
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
Links roundup
Transblawg / While I’m busy elsewhere, here are some more parasitical offerings: Babelport: There’s a new translation portal out, Babelport. I didn’t bother to look at it at first because these things are springing up like nobody’s busines
Surviving in Germany/Überlebenstipps Deutschland
Transblawg / Spiegel Online is preparing a Germany Survival Bible. If you’re an expat or someone who has spent time in Germany, we want your help. Why do pedestrians wait for the light to change at 3:00 a.m.? Why are the shops closed on Sunday? Is German b
How Apple could fight Cisco
MarkenBlog / How Apple could fight Cisco news analysis A cell phone is to an Internet phone as an airplane is to a faucet? That analogy isn’t likely to appear on the SATs next year. But that’s precisely the question at the heart of the legal dispu
Translation request / Anfrage
Transblawg / This Friday morning at ten past ten I had a phone call from a local translation agency I don’t know. Die Stadt Nürnberg bringt ein Bildband über die Stadt heraus. Der zu übersetzende Text ist etwa zwölf Seiten lang in Word.
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