Two jam doughnuts and two marzipan doughnuts:

as a partial answer to this.

Source: Pillipp. (The marzipan doughnuts are very unusual and have become even rarer since this photo was taken)

Was bedeutet “samt Anhang” (“s.A.”) nach einer Geldsumme? Entweder “plus Zinsen” oder “plus Zinsen und Kosten”?

Hier ein Beispiel:

Das Oberlandesgericht Graz hat als Berufungsgericht durch den Senatspräsidenten des Oberlandesgerichtes Dr.Schweighofer und die Richter des Oberlandesgerichtes Dr.Schmeid und Dr.Koczett in der Rechtssache
der klagenden Partei 37O20 Volargne di Dolce, Verona, Italien, vertreten durch – Rechtsanwälte in Salzburg, gegen die beklagte Partei Petersgasse 73, 8010 Graz, vertreten durch Rechtsanwälte in Graz, wegen Lit. 5,050.241,70 samt Anhang, infolge Berufung der klagenden Partei gegen das Urteil des Landesgerichtes für Zivilrechtssachen Graz vom 28. Juni 1995, 13 Cg 321/93a-55, nach öffentlicher, mündlicher Berufungsverhandlung den

Beschluß gefaßt:
Der Berufung wird Folge gegeben.
Das angefochtene Urteil, das hinsichtlich des Zuspruches von Lit. 6,228.632,30 samt 5 % Zinsen seit 20.1.1992 in österreichischen Schillingen zum Kurs der Wiener Börse (Devise) Mailand am Zahlungstag und hinsichtlich der Abweisung von 10 % Zinsen aus Lit. 5,050.241,70 seit 20.1.1992 als unbekämpft unberührt bleibt, wird im übrigen, und zwar hinsichtlich des Betrages von Lit. 5,050.241,7O samt 5 % Zinsen seit 20.1.1992 einschließlich der Kostenentscheidung, aufgehoben und die Rechtssache in diesem Umfang zur neuerlichen Verhandlung und Entscheidung an das Erstgericht zurückverwiesen.

I’m posting this message which I got from the u-forum mailing list (mailing lists for translators):

bq. The IATE database has been put into production in the EU’s translation
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URL you have used is a link to a test database; when we noticed that this
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block the access to avoid performance problems. The system is today simply
not ready to be used by the public. However, the developments that are
necessary to make IATE available to external users with a satisfying level
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The word regeln is used a lot in German legal texts. I’ve always been irritated to see it translated as regulate.

I recently received a query quoting a question ‘Is theft regulated by the common law in England and Wales?’

This is really confusing. Often regeln means to lay down, and in this case the questioner probably meant, ‘Is theft a common-law offence?’ or ‘Is theft defined by the common law?’ The answer would be ‘No, theft is a statutory offence. There are hardly any common-law offences in England today, but one of them is murder. And theft is defined in the Theft Act’.

But this sounds as if it meant ‘Does the common law influence the definition of theft?’ The answer to this is more difficult. On the one hand, every element of theft is further defined in case law, and I suppose this is a possible meaning of regulate. But on the other hand, one has to wonder whether the questioner is stupid enough to have logically meant this.

And yet, statutes do regulate things. For instance, they may regulate the sentences for various crimes, or traffic flow can be regulated. Try a simple search of the British National Corpus, using regulated as the search word, to see how the word is commonly used.

Am 28. Februar und einmal pro Monat danach soll ein Blog-Übersetzungsfest stattfinden. Die Veranstalter haben wahrscheinlich mit literarischer Übersetzung zu tun. Man kann in und aus jeder Sprache übersetzen, wobei ich mich fragen muss, ob Übersetzungen aus dem Walisischen ins Georgische viel Anklang finden werden.

Via languagehat we learn that there is to be a ‘Blog Translation Carnival’ on February 8th and once a month thereafter – see Altalk Blog. Good news for those who aren’t, and perhaps also those who are, blind drunk on account of the Mardi Gras date. For the following requires quite a bit of coordination:

bq. You can translate any blog entry that was posted in the month of February 2006. It can be your own blog entry, if you like.
From participants I need:
your name
name of your blog
your blog URL
post title in target language

bq. name of blog you’re translating
name of person you’re translating
that URL
the post title in the source language
You should get permission from the person you’re translating to post your translation of their work. I would also suggest that you might introduce your translation for the target-language audience, and provide some context if you can.

Altalk is a weblog for the American Literary Translators’ Association.

Steve hopes lots of polyglots will participate, although I suppose diglots will do.

Edinburgh Law Schools’ Scots Law News is almost a blog. But it doesn’t give links.

Section 532 is a Review of the Year of our Lord 2005.

bq. 2005 was the year that introduced our readers, not only to natural disasters (Nos 423, 495), but also to neutral citation (No 417), ASBOs (No 426), FoI (Nos 437, 471, 505, 511), G8 (No 483), HBJ Gateley Wareing (No 506), the rights to roam (No 432) and to buy (Nos 432, 469), duck density as a measure of university quality (No 470), humanist weddings (No 477), civil partnerships (No 529), Creative Commons and “copyleft” (No 522), and Lord President Hamilton (No 518; note also No 516).

In section 529 (scroll down), we learn that common-law marriage has gone:

bq. Slipped in during the Bill’s parliamentary progress was the abolition of yet another bit of Scots law’s medieval heritage, viz marriage by cohabitation with habit and repute (see section 2A). Another good exam question gone! – although there are some transitional provisions on the subject to which the desperate examiner may be able to turn for a few years yet.

The tone is dry but far from dour.