Taken two days ago. I might have written more, for instance something about legal translation, but my provider has been down. Here’s a view from the office window, also from Wednesday:

Ken Kronenberg’s blog has been active since last October:

The purpose of this blog is to provide a forum, a clearinghouse, where progressive translators and other interested persons may discuss issues of concern, including, but not limited to, political aspects of translation, translation theory, the policies and structure of the ATA, and activism at the local group level.

I’ve linked to Ken’s website before, but I didn’t realize he had a weblog.

Comments will be closed and activity here cease for a few days.

Mystery of the week: what has translation quality control and DIN EN 15038 got to do with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson? I think this is a question even Sherlock Holmes (I happened to watch a DVD of The Hound of the Baskervilles with Basil Rathbone yesterday) couldn’t solve.

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It appears that the image is a doctored version of a public domain illustration at Wikimedia Commons. The original drawing has the text ‘Holmes gave me a sketch of the events’. Maybe this illustrates the brief train journey taken in The Hound of the Baskervilles, before Holmes and Watson sneak back across the moor.

The problem is that the drawing evokes quite inappropriate associations among English readers.

IATE, the EU terminology database that is the successor to Eurodicautom, is now available to all online. This was promised for the second half of March. (It gave me ten different German versions of affidavit).