Musings of the Mad Wordsmith (and other things)

Published in SAJIM, Sept 2007 Vol. 9(3) In 2001, which seems like pre-history in Internet time, I wrote a research report about e-books in w...

http://www.kalima.ae/eng.php Not surprisingly, our team has been eyeing this from the moment of its inception. Not any longer. We have slowl...

I don't mean to be unkind, but I have just finished checking business cards for a few people working at a local government department wh...

Review Gouadec, D. (2007) Translation As a Profession . Amsterdam: John Benjamins If I had enough money to buy just a single volume of trans...

From SMH: http://blogs.smh.com.au/sit/archives/2007/08/xenophilia_hills_hoist_by_book.html A biography of Japan's Princess Masako publis...

From the Indian Telegraph, Sunday 19th August: Tagore wrote Shey (He) for his granddaughter Pupe. It is a world of delightful and bizarre ad...

Persian translation of fake “Harry Potter” hits Iran’s bookstores TEHRAN, Aug. 15 ( MNA ) -- A Persian translation of the internet counterf...

From http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/224219.html World briefs: French teen a wizard at translation PARIS A determined French 16-...

One more chapter to the sage of two days ago, this time in Hungary: " Hungarian HP publisher to sue over illegal translation Animus, t...

The Daily Telegraph (London) has published a short piece stating that the Chinese censors have closed down a group of teenage translators wo...

I find this absolutely hilarious: How eight pixels cost Microsoft millions By Jo Best Story last modified Thu Aug 19 11:36:00 PDT 2004 M...

A few weeks ago I received an email via Proz from some Pakistani Fazul who wanted me to help him. The subject heading sounded like one of th...

Borders. I love Borders. I planned to stay at the Not-so-Glorious Gloria Jeans and peck on my laptop (hoping the hotspot in the City is func...

Professor Raphael Israeli ( http://www.acpr.org.il/people/risraeli.html ) should not be permitted to write books in English. His English suc...

Why isn't this entry in the language section? Because it is going to make a few people unhappy, and unhappiness is politically almost al...

Queensland's biggest, occupying 4 exhibition halls at the prestigious Brisbane Convention Centre, and showcasing billions of books, thou...

I read it on the train, trying not to knock other commuters off their feet. I read it in the bath tub, a towel in hand, in case the book got...

In the world of translation, one thing is vital: that you are a specialist in the language you translate from and into. Otherwise, you may a...

I have just lost everything I wrote into this blog entry, and I am not happy. Writing doesn’t come easily to me these days, not with the con...

w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m Last update - 00:54 11/02/2005 Trapped in a group photograph Amir believes in the distinction between private ...