Translation weblog Oversetter
am 29.10.2006 von http://transblawg.eu
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 many more entries.
I see he actually …
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