Warmest wishes to all readers for the coming week.
Paris
A Monday smile did not seem appropriate.
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Photo credit: European Commission Audiovisual Service.
Monday smile – Spin
Looking forward to a busy week – hope yours will be good.
Anyone done any marketing texts recently?
EU translation memories – 2015 release
As a reminder, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation and the Joint Research Centre make freely available translation memories which include the European Union’s legislative documents (Acquis Communautaire) in 24 EU languages.
Monday smile – Writing well
Following on from my recent post on Red Riding Hood, from the US Government, here is a great list of advice on writing well – in tongue-in-cheek style.
More links to international law – cases & reports
Following on from yesterday’s post which includes lists of Supreme Courts and international courts, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge offers a list of websites on which international courts, tribunals and organisations post decisions and reports.
Links to Supreme Courts & other international courts all around the world
The French Court of Cassation makes available on its website links to Supreme Courts all over the world.
Workshop – Precedent in EU law: the linguistic aspect
The Centre for European Legal Studies at the University of Exeter, in conjunction with the Irish Centre for European Law, is holding a free one-day workshop on ‘Precedent in EU law: the linguistic aspect’ on Saturday, 5 December 2015 from 10 am to 4 pm at the Dun Library, Dublin, Ireland.
Monday smile – Synonyms
To continue on from Friday’s theme (see here)… I think you’ll like this. Enjoy your week!
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Dictionary of synonyms (FR)
The University of Caen makes available a very useful dictionary of synonyms through its linguistics department and the research centre CRISCO (Centre de Recherche Inter-langue sur la Signification en COntexte).
The interface is clear, simple, and best of all, clean and fast. 🙂 No fancy graphics here, but, at least on my computer, it is super efficient.
Oh, and did I mention that there are no adverts? 👍😍
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