Translating and using mechanical translation tools
An overview of on-line mechanical translation software and some of the general issues that make this software useful and/or problematic.
Month: June 2022
Swimming race to disappointment
Translation of 5 pages from Alex Schulmann’s Överlevarna – The Survivors: three brother race one another, swimming too far out in the lake.
Quay of Dreams
A photo essay from a walk in the sun along the Quay of Dreams, where Gothenburg’s dreamers refurbish hulks and imagine sailing away.
Inarticulate characters – know what I mean?
It’s not easy to write inarticulate characters and make them sympathetic. But Prince Charles managed it once (perhaps inadvertantly). How about you?
Lsd – a piffiling proposal for Boris de Piffle
An open letter to Prime Minister Johnson encouraging a return to the Great British currency. Down with the decimal, up with the Imperial Lsd!