Sometimes German-English translation takes us outside the German-speaking area.
Here are some other tourists with a supernatural belief in the power of flash, pretending to photograph the dome of Florence Cathedral.
Italians have a strong visual sense. These drawings are very old, predating Brunelleschi’s rediscovery of the laws of perspective.
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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.
MDÜ – Fachzeitschrift für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer (it has just dropped the name Mitteilungen für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer)
For non-members of the BDÜ 10 euros an issue and 50 euros a year (5 issues) from BDÜ
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).
It seems a good idea to pay for one’s underground ticket, but the consequences of not paying are worse than I imagined – a criminal record and no future.
Meanwhile at Nymphenburg (click to enlarge):
And then again:
