Saudi Arabian authorities disqualified dozens of camels “after owners manipulate their looks with hormones, fillers and facelifts” according to The Guardian newspaper this week in an article entitled “Camels enhanced with Botox barred from Saudi beauty contest”.
We’re on a theme here after last week’s giraffes… Continue reading
Following on from this post, here’s another selection from the kookier realms of academia… 😊
Research Re: Search & Re-Search
(By exploring promising parts of the search space first, best-first algorithms are usually more efficient than depth-first algorithms.) Continue reading
I think every translator and interpreter hates acronyms more than most – the number of alternatives out there making the confusion even worse.
Think you might all enjoy this… 😊 Continue reading
A Monday smile in French today. Bonne semaine ! 😊
Un surveillant pénitentiaire dit à un prisonnier :
Félicitations, vous allez sortir de prison pour bonne conduite !
Ah bon, mais je ne comprends pas…
Pourquoi ça ?
Je suis entré pour excès de vitesse et je sors pour bonne conduite ?
In the news lately (apart from the COP26 conference), and especially at a number of translation conferences, we’ve seen plenty about artificial intelligence, so I really liked this take on the matter…
The dangers of governments not carrying due diligence in the procurement of machine translation hit the news again last week – this time in Sweden.
The Local, a European English-language news network, reported that “British parent Neale Thomas was trying to apply for VAB – Sweden’s sick pay when looking after an ill child – when he discovered several “Monty Python-esque” translations on the agency’s website”. Continue reading
Am I alone in thinking that the financial instrument “tuna bonds” sounds quite funny? 😂
When the latest Lexology update popped into my inbox – “FCA Fine Credit Suisse £147m and Obtain Undertaking from Bank to Forgive $200m of Mozambican State Debt in Respect of Tuna Bonds Scandal” – I just had to find out more.
This Monday Smile is thanks to Andrew Leigh. He included this little video clip in his great Masterclass last Friday on the subject of best business practice for legal translators. 🤩
We all know we should read Terms & Conditions, but do we really do it? Continue reading
A French Monday smile today, from the pen of the talented, philanthropic and sadly shortlived comedian Coluche. Continue reading
Sticking my neck out today 😊 with a zoological Monday smile.
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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