What kind of American English do you speak?
am 14.04.2005 von http://transblawg.euTest Your Linguistic Profile: 45% General American English 25% Yankee 20% Dixie 5% Midwestern 5% Upper Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak? I had to …
Nothing for Ungood/Ein Amerikaner in Deutschland
Transblawg / John, who wisely remains anonymous apart from his first name, has a weblog I will be visiting again. The subheading, and usual topic, is German quirks from an American perspective. In theory there is nothing wrong with learning England’s v
British English / American English Weblog
Transblawg / Separated by a common language - Observations on British and American English by an American linguist in the UK - looks like a very useful weblog. I suppose discussion of the differences between BE or BrE and AmE has exploded as a result of the Inte
Russias Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered
smartnuts / Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. [...] Kushnir, 35, headed the English learning centers the Ce
Books on legal English - general/ Bücher über die englische Rechtssprache - allgemein
Transblawg / I wrote a whole screen on how you should choose a book as carefully as you choose your toothpaste, but I suspect people want concrete advice. That follows in a later entry. Here's the general waffle: Books to learn legal English /Bücher zu
Translating into British or American English / Arsch mit Ohren
Transblawg / From a letter to the Editor, TLS, 25 January 2008: Sir, - As most of the TLS is still written in British rather than American English, Leo A. Lensings translation of Arsch mit Ohren as an ass with ears (January 11) calls for comment, since most
Use of English in German enterprises
Transblawg / The Financial Times (English edition) of 12 April 2005 has two articles on the use of English in German businesses: English is not always music to the ears, and The new lingua germanica. They will be free online for a...
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Jurabilis / Pretty neat project! Contact torsten.jochem@gmail.com directly for more information. ------------------------ Vyjayanthi Rao (Professor at the Anthropology department as well as GPIA) is supporting a project of a very well known Chinese artist, wh
Serial Translation
Jurabilis / Pretty neat project! Contact torsten.jochem@gmail.com directly for more information. ------------------------ Vyjayanthi Rao (Professor at the Anthropology department as well as GPIA) is supporting a project of a very well known Chinese artist, wh
Unclogged English/Englisch enthollandisieren
Transblawg / I see that today the Dutch Queen's Day is being celebrated on the South Bank, so time to mention the presentation at the ITI conference on unclogged English last weekend. Dr. Joy Burrough-Boenisch has spent many years editing scientific English
Monolingual German police dogs / Britische Polizei muss Deutsch sprechen
Transblawg / It is widely reported today (and yesterday) that British police have been importing German shepherd dogs and are confronted with the need to say Sitz instead of sit or retrain the dogs to understand English commands. The stories are all appare
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
Hebrew into English MT problems /
Transblawg / On November 6, the Jerusalem Post reported on what sounds like a major diplomatic incident arising from a machine-translated email. A group of Israeli journalists were invited by the Dutch foreign minister to visit the Netherlands, and the only
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