A particularity of English, especially when spoken by Brits, is that people don’t necessarily mean what they say…
Category Archives: Monday smiles
Monday smile – Sun headlines can sometimes be (quite) good
With the media frenzy going on at present, it seemed apt to dig out a rather (unusually) good headline from the British newspaper The Sun, in the millenium year 2000, which reported on an attempted diamond robbery.
Monday smile – Animation on the benefits of bilingualism
I’m sure that readers of this blog are convinced of the benefits of having a bilingual (or multilingual) brain, but here is a short and clear animation that you might like to use to explain them to others. 🙂
Monday smile – In principle…
Midsummer week begins…
Monday smile – How not to write an introduction
An introduction of three paragraphs, eight sentences, and 318 words? 🙂
Monday smile – The way you slice it
Have a great week!
Monday smile – Sneaky metaphors
Today I offer you a nicely ironic citation by Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo in the case Berkey v. Third Avenue Railway Co 244 N.Y. 602 (1927).
Monday smile – English eccentrics in the garden
Today is the start of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show in London. This year, the department store Harrods has sponsored a quirky garden which celebrates eccentric British humour, paying homage to the illustrator W. Heath Robinson – who is a must for anyone involved in patents. 🙂
Monday smile – Lawyer eats words (and paper)
Another media frenzy today – involving a lawyer in Russia who ate a key piece of evidence – a breathalyser report – when left alone in a judge’s office. Continue reading
Monday smile – Can (Klingon) language be copyrighted?
If you have managed to miss the media frenzy, you might be interested in the case of Paramount v Axanar, in which several areas of infringement are discussed, but in particular the use of the Klingon language. 🙂
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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