Peter Griffin’s edition of Tocats pel foc (Catalan original by Pedrolo with English translation by Griffin) has been taken over by a publisher and can be got for $15. See amazon, for example (two Catalan persons appear to have given it the thumbs-up already).
The ISBN is 0977498808.
Bumper stickers and T-shirts say ‘No kangaroos in Austria’, but here you can see a lone kangaroo considering whether to cross a snowy road in Carinthia (shortly before being sedated and returned to its owner – Austrians who own kangaroos have to sign a declaration of secrecy).
Via Aktenvermerk
The Süddeutsche Zeitung has taken 20 of the Hessen questions and made them multiple-choice. Of course, some were familiar now, but I still found them tricky.
bq. 20 Punkte
Glückwunsch! Sie sind auf jeden Fall Deutschland! Bei soviel Kenntnissen von Land und Werten klappt´s ganz sicher mit der Einbürgerung.
That’s easy for them to say, but in Bavaria they don’t want us British people. Or rather, we should be allowed to have dual nationality (a reciprocal arrangement) but that’s only the situation on paper or in other parts of Germany.
I think this may be a mixture of Chaucer and Molesworth.
Sir –
Ich wishe for adyce in the matter of fashion and armes. Ys it verrily a mistake to wear a lilyflour in my helm? (Ich have a shylde of golde.)
ThopasMon Sire Thopas,
By seinte Jerome, finallye someone who kan spelle! Messire Thopas, yow seem a man fair and gent, and Y sholde muchel relish for to tellen yowre tale. Ich shalle have myne peple calle yowre peple. As for the lilye? It dependeth how whethir yow wolde ben ‘easte coaste’ or ‘weste coaste.’
Le Vostre G
For anyone dealing with older German texts, the 1902 Muret-Sanders is very useful. I repost this from a small mailing list on non-contemporary German:
We have just released a 600dpi high-resolution version of the
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data. Visit this site for full-screen images of the new DVD version:
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Or go to www.dvdictionary.com for more info. Priced for a limited time at only $64.95 through RegSoft.com or Paypal (membership not required).
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The dictionary can be searched, and there is an additional free program, GE Trans, that makes this easier.
The terms real-time translation and live translation have both come up in the past few days.
About Translation links to TranslationBooth, which offers rapid low-cost translations online.
Riccardo’s source was PRWeb:
bq. Online translation company, TranslationBooth.com, has released the first Quick Translation service available on the web. The company claims that through the use of cutting edge technology it can return human translations in a fraction of the time that traditional translation services require.
On March 14, I heard from a similar project, LiveTranslation.
Both sites seem to be advertising a product that is better than Babelfish but can be obtained with minimum effort and fast.
Phillip Perks of LiveTranslation wrote:
bq. Translation jobs are automatically allocated based on language ability and the subject matter is usually simple business communications or web content. If you are logged in, then the site will give an audio alert to let you know a job is waiting. If no suitable translators are logged in then an email alert is sent and the job is allocated on a first come basis.
I am thinking of starting a service to deliver translation in less than real time, for instance yesterday. That’s what a lot of clients would like.