Not everyone was concerned with the World Cup in Fürth this afternoon, as this fully decorated Christmas tree shows:
But many were:
I wonder if that fly is to scale.
Note the decoration on the Dreiherrenbrunnen in the background.
Transblawg
Weblog on German-English legal translation, no longer from Fürth
Why only from European languages, I wonder?
I overlooked that. They aren’t very present on the Internet, are they? I see a prize relating to Arabic has recently been introduced elsewhere. I wonder if the judges are expected to speak one or the other relevant language, but there are two Hungarian novels on the list, and I doubt they have a speaker of that. Or maybe it’s just tradition. Does anyone know?
I see Trevor points out that this quote is rubbish (not without justification). I was actually deliberately avoiding the bit quoted in Luxus Linguae, because I had the feeling that was just toeing the line – someone had been asked to judge a translation competition and obviously she was going to make such statements. I am looking forward to Homer brushing up his English.