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Words to good effect. Getting paid. On time. With the EU’s help. A poet laureate (and rapper) for translators. Singing in Occitan. Beautifully. A week or two ago I hear a recording on Radio Scotland of Dawn Upshaw. Singing Baïlèro, one of the Songs from the Auvergne. A collection of folk songs from the Auvergne region of France arranged for soprano voice and orchestra or piano by Joseph Canteloube between 1923 and 1930 [] in the local language, Occitan. I hope you enjoy it and that it brings a touch of s...
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Your polls | Words to good effect
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Words to good effect. Another “container” page, this time for our polls. I’ll be adding links here to any “poll posts” so that you can dip into and respond to them without having to search through the archives. Love your job and tweet about it? Online newspapers: to pay or not to pay. Fees: to raise or not to raise? Take our poll: should new clients test your skills or hire you on trust? Fees: to publish or not to publish? Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Feed for this Entry. Sign up to D...
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Your words | Words to good effect
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Words to good effect. This page is intended to “capture” your favourite and least favourite English (and Scottish and other-language) words. It brings together your comments made here in the blog or in emails and Twitter on Words that set our teeth on edge. English words the world likes. And the words the world just can’t abide. Chosen by non-native English-speakers:. Smile shilly-shally chuffed flabbergasted. Cundy (Dundee word for “gutter”. Careful pronunciation required! Words you don’t like. Basicall...
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English Archives - Words to good effect at Words to good effect
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Words to good effect. Archive for the 'English' Category. In Vogue: shades of grey, parenting and fitness for busy people. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window). Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window). Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window). Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window). Click to print (Opens in new window).
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Serendipity and the scents of war - Words to good effect at Words to good effect
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Words to good effect. Serendipity and the scents of war. I wrote the other day about. As one of my favourite words. Serendipity’s another). Scent isn’t a word you’d normally associate with the war in Afghanistan. But it cropped up in a Radio Scotland programme, Black Watch, 3 Scots: A War in Their Own Words. Recounting life in the Afghan war zones. The account takes the form of diary entries, e-mails home and transcripts in the words of the soldiers themselves. Here is one such excerpt:. Click to email t...
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A poet laureate (and rapper) for translators | Words to good effect
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Words to good effect. Singing in Occitan. Beautifully. A poet laureate (and rapper) for translators. Did you know that we translators have our own poet laureate — who’s also a pretty mean rapper? Here’s a sample:. Ten thousand words for Friday. OK that should be fine. Two thousand words a day. A good steady pace I must say. Day one and all is going fine. It’s telly tonight with a glass of wine. Day two and a favourite client asks. Would I have time for a couple of tasks? Find out at Chatter and Verse.
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Favourite language, writing, and translation blogs and websites at Words to good effect
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Words to good effect. The following list features some of the blogs and websites I’ve found interesting and/or useful. You’ll find some of these links in the sidebar the selection there changes each time you refresh the page. The selection feature is designed to reduce “link blindness”: which is what happens when you. The links every time you visit the blog, but never actually. The lists below started off in alphabetical order but that will no doubt fall by the wayside before very long. The trials, tribu...
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Get off your butt - Words to good effect at Words to good effect
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Words to good effect. Get off your butt. I’ve just read a pretty scary article. In The Independent newspaper which says that people who spend many hours of the day seated (at their desks or on the couch watching TV) are increasing their risks of ill health (and early death) — regardless of exercise at other times. This quote sums it up:. So all those power-walks and gym classes aren’t helping, if you spend the time in between totally sedentary (guess who’s guilty of that). Buy a height-adjustable desk.
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Polish: the world's most loved – and Scotland's first "other" – language - Words to good effect at Words to good effect
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Words to good effect. Polish: the world’s most loved and Scotland’s first “other” language. The French translators’ organisation (the Société française des traducteurs, or SFT) recently asked me to write an article about the Scots language, the inspiration being Scotland’s independence referendum on 18 September 2014. The article beautifully translated by Géraldine Chantegrel. Will be published in the December 2014 issue of. Polish: the world’s most loved language. While I don’t for one second doub...
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A translation sin of omission - Words to good effect at Words to good effect
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Words to good effect. A translation sin of omission. I wrote a couple of posts, back in August, about the Oxford comma ( Oxford commas (1). The Oxford Comma dilemma: a solution? And Oxford commas (2): Live dangerously – take our poll! This post too is about list sentences containing commas. It’s also about a way of spotting when an Italian-to-English translator is working on automatic pilot (not a good work mode! In this case, English-speaking users reading a list sentence expect to see the word “a...
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