Taking the streetcar to Grinzing
am 28.02.2008 von Transblawg
I thought George Steiner affected British English?
What has really got the reviewers goat is his litany of sexual conquests. He is fluent in at least four languages, and has had memorable sex in them all. To make love in Italian is to know that certain days run to 25 hours ... Gloriously astride me, my first teacher in the arts of orgasm ... bade me Come, come now and deep. But did so using the formal vous. Vs grammar of love-making was Viennese ... She mapped her own opulent …
Lawyer of love / Playboy-Anwältin
Transblawg / Questions of the week to the Lawyer of Love in Playboy: Neil, White Plains NY: I am engaged to be married. All my friends keep telling me I should insist on a prenuptial agreement but I am unsure and do not want to risk losing my fiancée. What…
Love is Back – Loveparade in Berlin
DPMS INFO / Love is back in the air… Unter dem Motto Love is back und unter der Schirmherrschaft von McFit einem bundesweiten Fitnessstudiokette startet heute nach zwei Jahren Pause die Love Parade in Berlin. Parallel dazu gibt es auch wieder eine Fuckpara…
YOU’LL LOVE IT
LawBlog / One afternoon a wealthy lawyer was riding in his limousine when he saw two men along the roadside eating grass. Disturbed, he ordered his driver to stop and got out to investigate. He asked one man, “Why are you eating grass?” “We…
St. Jeromes Day/Hieronymustag
Transblawg / Last Sunday was apparently the European Day of Languages, which has been taking place (in great secrecy) since 2001. I did mention it last year, but I decided it wasn’t really correct to publicize something that doesn’t publicize itself.…
Diploma / M.A. in legal translation, City University London
Transblawg / City University has recently announced, apparently, that its diploma / M.A. course on legal translation is not starting till autumn 2008. Meanwhile, there are a number of modules that can be taken separately as CPD (The ITI has recently been encourag…
Streit um George Foreman Domain
MarkenBlog / Die George Foreman Ventures LLC, Inhaberin der Rechte an der Marke GEORGE FOREMAN, hat vor dem Schiedsgericht des NAF die Domain georgeforemanenterprises.com eingeklagt. Der ehemalige Schwergewichtsboxchampion George Foreman hat die Rechte an seine…
Towel torching /
Transblawg / According to The Register, a British coach driver set fire to Germans' towels on the Italian Riviera in order to make sun loungers available to British holidaymakers: Glyn Bowden, 55, was driver for 55 South Wales tourists at at Viana Marina nea…
Studying translation and interpreting / Studenten heute und damals
Transblawg / The Guardian interviews five people who were students in the 1970s and 1980s, taking them back to their universities to see how things have changed. They include Gary Younge, who studied Russian and French translation and interpreting at Heriot-Watt…
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