Space oddity
Less than a week after the severe flooding in central Europe, just as [...]
Inside a translator’s head (again)
I was cycling to my yoga class this morning. I have to cross [...]
Bigwigs
It often happens in a translation that I can’t use the word I’d [...]
Flarf
As a Scot, I was naturally quite happy with the draw against England [...]
Idiomadness
I was trying to find the equivalent of ‘voor een dubbeltje op de [...]
Double effing
No, I’m not swearing! Today, some lovely words we must all try to [...]
Rough
As a logical next step in my pursuit of literary success, I registered [...]
Gun
There are lots of articles and posts to be found about ‘untranslatable’ words. [...]
Prompt!
As promised, a bit more information about the new venture – Prompt Writing! [...]
Ubiquitous
As I’ve mentioned before, a translator looks stuff up. All the time. Stuff [...]