Translating into the non-native language
am 23.06.2005 von TransblawgIf a German colleague of yours had a website advertising translations into English, and that colleague used an incorrect word as a big heading, what would you do? …
Accessibility / Barrierefreiheit
Transblawg / Jeremy Keith of Adactio went to Berlin last December for the BIENE website accessibility awards and wondered about the German language, under the heading 'The language of accessibility': … I was thinking about the German word being use…
Givings / Neudeutsch
Transblawg / Some Germans think the English word gift is funny, because in German Gift means poison. They have the same origin - something you give someone. Dose has the same idea. Is this the origin of the Neudeutsch word givings, which I encountered on an ITI…
I need more cement/Deutsche Bauarbeiter suchen Arbeit in England
Transblawg / The Independent reports: German builders are heading to the UK in a reversal of the Auf Wiedersehen, Pet emigration of the British building trade in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Thoughts are being given to cultural and language training: And…
The Language Guy
Transblawg / The Language Guy is a new weblog by Mike Geis, who describes himself as a retired linguist. To judge from his profile, he may write something about law and language. I wrote “The Language of Television Advertising,” “The Language of…
German-English technical translators weblog
Transblawg / Translationfound is the occasional weblog of Gisela Strauss, a technical translator in Munich. I t describes itself as follows: Translation Found is a loosely typed bilingual - English-German language blog, discussing language, translation and locali…
German politics in English
Transblawg / Wortfeld, usually a German-language blog, has an entry in English describing the background to Schröder’s announcement of autumn elections. There are a large number of links. As Alexander rightly says, the coverage of German matters in the…
Rejected in a hurry
Aktenvermerk / Who says that the law review article consideration process is slow? Brian Leiter writes about how Ohio State law professor Christopher Fairman’s article was rejected by the Kansas Law Review in only 25 minutes. Apparently, all it took for the e…
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