The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate
am 17.11.2004 von http://transblawg.euThe Guardian reports that Prince Charles’ household is described as ‘elitist’. I didn’t realize the Sexual Discrimination Act applied there, but of course it does. Ms Day told …
Reznikoff: Testimony - found poem based on law reports
Transblawg / Gail Armstrong at Open Brackets, writing on plagiarism, mentions a work unknown to me: Charles Reznikoff’s ‘Testimony: The United States (1885-1915): Recitative’, which ‘consists of hundreds of stories taken from law reports&#…
Grafflmarkt / Flea market
Transblawg / I had a peculiar exchange of words at the flea market. I was looking at a thick DIY book of the 1960s, entitled Die Axt im Haus. But I didn’t get far because one of the stallholders came up to me and said, ‘This book is much better̵…
Texts /Texte
Transblawg / I suppose this was done by Sebastian, unless Shannon doesn’t know her prepositions. Hope this is well lit at night. This is just so tempting, but I didn’t have anything with me. Of course, ‘good value’ is one of...…
Auberon Waugh prizewinners announced
Transblawg / The Guardian reports on this year’s winners for excruciatingly written scenes of intimacy in fiction. This is run by the Literary Review. The purpose of the prize, as originally set out, is ‘to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, oft…
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…
From lip to paper / Übertragungsfehler
Transblawg / Michael Kadlicz of Juristisches und Sonstiges reports on the sort of problem that sometimes causes translators grief, when there’s an obscure word in the source text: a fellow-lawyer dictated ‘Briefdoppel’ and the typist wrote ̵…
Überbee
Transblawg / CNN reports: A 13-year-old New Jersey girl making her fifth straight appearance at the Scripps National Spelling Bee rattled off “ursprache” to claim the title of America’s best speller on prime-time television Thursday night. Kat…
Mayhews London Labour and the London Poor online
Transblawg / Henry Mayhew’s ‘London Labour and the London Poor’ has been digitized and put online by the University of Virginia Library. We always had a Mayhew at home, but maybe it isn’t so well-known outside Britain. He was a journalist…
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