I was surprised to read that German public TV will be having live coverage of Prince William’s graduation parade at Sandhurst tomorrow morning, as was Daland Segler in the Frankfurter Rundschau:

Klagen über das miese Fernsehprogramm gehen stets an der Sache vorbei: Denn frei nach Goethe – “Wer vieles bringt, wird manchem etwas bringen” – findet sich im täglichen Angebot immer noch der eine oder andere Beitrag, der dem einen oder anderen zusagt. Nun aber hat die ARD eine Klientel entdeckt, die sie bislang vernachlässigt hat: die Kommissköppe.

Via Astrid Paprotta

The blogger behind Life in Translation has sticky notes to remember which party is which:

Similarly, it ought to be enough that these terms are in my termbase but somehow it isn’t. And so three sticky notes (physical paper, not electronic ones) live on the edge of my screen.
Arrendadora – LESSOR
Arrendatario – LESSEE

Franquiciante – FRANCHISOR
Franquiciado – FRANCHISEE

Fiduciaro – TRUSTEE
Fideicomitente – SETTLOR/TRUSTOR
Fideicomisario – BENEFICIARY/TRUSTEE

I suggest adding MORTGAGOR and MORTGAGEE

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Via Streitsache

Via a referrer, I see that translationdirectory.com has a page with links to translation weblogs. Of those I don’t know, some look fairly dead, but not all. There is ¿Se habla English? by Jo-Hanna Goettsche, a native Spanish speaker from Puerto Rico living in Nebraska, and she links to an occasional blog called Twisted Tongues by Dena and Daniel Shunra and their cats in Washington State. I seem to remember them being on LANTRA-L.

Click to enlarge. Also see earlier entry.

I wonder what Ludwig would have said.

The Grotian Moment blog, which blogs the Saddam Hussein trial, has been given a first unofficial translation of the judgment.

It does appear preliminary – perhaps there were communication problems between translation and paper (‘this safe town was rich in fruit gardens irritated from the Tigris river’), but it looks good. The Grotian Moment site comments:

Over the next few days, critics will undoubtedly pick apart various aspects of the Dujail Opinion. The English translation is a bit awkward, the text is redundant, and the prose certainly won’t be compared to the opinions of Oliver Wendell Homes or Learned Hand. But even the harshest critics of the Tribunal will have to admit that it did a competent job writing its Opinion, and that the Opinion does answer many of the questions about the fairness of the process.

The ‘Iraqi High Court’ referred to is given here as the Iraqi High Court Criminal Law.

(Via the German American Law Journal blog)