Credit Crunch chocolate/Arbeitssuchende Wirtschaftsprüfer

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Selfridges is selling Credit Crunch Chocolate.

‘Credit Crunch’ is a more-ish marriage of the very best velvet-rich Valrhona chocolate, thickly coated over hokey pokey honeycomb pieces. It is available covered either in dark or milk Valrhona chocolate (£3.99 for a 150g bag). This delicious chocolate treat is hand made at The Chocolate Society’s west London kitchens by its team of expert chocolatiers. The Chocolate Society proprietor and food writer Kevin Gould adds: “The ‘Credit Crunch’ treat we have created exclusively for Selfridges is good news for chocolate lovers and doom-sayers alike.

(I suppose ‘hokey pokey’ means something in the USA?)

via Swordplay

And a short film on a reverse of circumstances after bank crashes: The Job.

(Thanks to Walter)

English-Portuguese law dictionary/Rechtswörterbuch Englisch-Portugiesisch

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The following is all in Portuguese. Even if you don’t read Portuguese, download the dictionary sample (see below), which contains pages from and into English. It looks excellent.

Fabio M. Said praises Marcílio Moreira de Castro’s English-Portuguese-English law dictionary (dictionary of law, economics and accounting).

It is only available on paper and has to be bought from the author, who is in Brazil.

Fabio is impressed with the use of monolingual references as sources and the relative lack of non-specialist terms (which often take up disproportionate space in specialist dictionaries).

A PDF sample can be downloaded.

The author has a blog on legal translation.

Mr Bean as banker/Britische Banken von Mr. Bean verwaltet

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Business owners try (successfully) to stave off being wound up:

‘It aint our fault, the stoopid court froze the bank account so we cuddent pay the stoopid bill could we, but we done it today some’ow like’

The other director chipped in ‘Yeah, our account is managed by the banking equivalent of Mr Bean’

Everyone looked at the judge. Possibly because these two guys looked as if they meant business and would beat up anyone who would disagree with them.

The judge looked up ‘I am afraid that you will find that the whole British banking system is being run by the equivalent of Mr Bean!’

From an entry about winding up day at the law courts in London by Swiss Tony.

Another entry on the same topic by Paranoid Pupil.