Unprofessional Translation

I’ve drawn attention before to the enormous number of translators who go uncounted in the statistics because they translate on the side but ...

This weekend a crowd of experts on Community Interpreting (CI, which is called Public Service Interpreting by the British) is gathering, dou...

When something goes wrong, the malfunction may give us an insight into how it goes right. Most of what I know about the workings of our car,...

For the distinction made here between dictionary and lexicon , see the June 30 post.   What interests us most from the translation view...

Today is July 14, Bastille Day , the national day of France. France gave us not only French but also half (roughly) of the vocabulary of Eng...

Soldiering is one way to see the world, meet people of other cultures and learn other languages. My own father was posted to Egypt during th...

This beautiful photo of a fine Egyptian bas-relief has been lying for several years in my files and I think it’s a pity to leave it there un...