You say tomayto and I say tomato
Transblawg | 28. November 2005 — At the legal translation seminar in Munich I learnt that people at the European Patent Office don’t mind whether they or I writ…
Symbiosis
This is a mysterious ad from the current version of the booklet announcing the BDÜ September translation conference in Berlin: Weird. This is the best I can do for the most common pronunciation: sım baı 'ǝʊs ıs The o sound in the third syllable is a bit different in the US. The second syllable suggestion is less common than mine, and the schwa in the last syllable is rec…
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Fibs
Transblawg | 15. April 2006 — Fib o nacci stuff is like haiku, but in fact the fib is easier to do. Gibt es Fibs auf Deutsch schon? The inventi…
Internet miscellany/Vermischtes aus dem Internet
Transblawg | 7. September 2010 — 1. The Guardian Books Blog invited readers to translate. See comments. A comment by smpugh: Don't let's forget Ogden Nash, btw, …
Pronunciation of legal terms / Aussprache von englischen Rechtsbegriffen
Transblawg | 1. November 2007 — The Talking Law Dictionary mentioned a few days ago is accompanied by a CD-ROM with famous lawyers from all over pronouncing terms…
'In case' in British and American English
Transblawg | 21. August 2006 — There is a difference in meaning of ‘in case…+ verb’ in common U.S. and British usage. A non-native speaker could make a conf…
Pronunciation of English words in German/Englische Wörter - deutsche Aussprache
Transblawg | 17. Juni 2011 — John Wells has a blog entry on how English words are pronounced when they turn up in German texts. (Yesterday he had one on the De…
U.S. Supreme Court case pronunciation/Aussprache der Namen beim Supreme Court
Transblawg | 23. November 2011 — The Volokh Conspiracy has a post on A Pronouncing Dictionary of the Supreme Court of the United States: Gene Fidell (Yale Law Sc…
Subeditors and writers/Schreiben und Editieren
Transblawg | 23. November 2008 — I've often told students that we do not use expletives in everyday English quite as often as some non-British people think. Readin…
German phonetics blog/Deutsches Phonetik-Weblog
Transblawg | 14. Juni 2007 — John Wells links to a German phonetics weblog by Dirk Olbertz, Phonetik. It looks good. It has a particular interest in the p…
Croatian pronunciation / Peinlicher Aussprachefehler in der kroatischen Nationalhymne
Transblawg | 23. November 2007 — Ananova reports that there was a pronunciation error in the singing of the Croatian national anthem before the England-Croatia mat…
