Pass me my bodybag
In a social media translators’ group, a colleague was bemoaning the proliferation of [...]
Bubbly, wobbly and bins
In the same week as the long and anxiously awaited outcome of the [...]
Shibboleth
So if we ever needed proof that Big Tech Brother is watching us, [...]
Inside a translator’s head
A friend posted this morning that she’d mistakenly bought a spread based on [...]
Write!
The Dutch habit of joining words together to make very long words can [...]
Marble
For me, the most colourful expression for being in trouble is: up shit [...]
A story of prepositions
Keeping a relationship healthy, whether working, romantic or social, is a question of [...]
Jiggery-pokery
The conversation yesterday evening took a strange turn mention of a very old [...]
Dead Methaphors
When you hear that someone was the laughing stock at a recent meeting, [...]
Website!
My translation jobs the last few days have been incredibly diverse, ranging from [...]