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Month: June 2022

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Translating and using mechanical translation tools

29 June, 2022

An overview of on-line mechanical translation software and some of the general issues that make this software useful and/or problematic.

Categories At the Quill
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Swimming race to disappointment

13 July, 202222 June, 2022

Translation of 5 pages from Alex Schulmann’s Överlevarna – The Survivors: three brother race one another, swimming too far out in the lake.

Categories Articulations, Translation
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Quay of Dreams

16 June, 202215 June, 2022

A photo essay from a walk in the sun along the Quay of Dreams, where Gothenburg’s dreamers refurbish hulks and imagine sailing away.

Categories Images, Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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Inarticulate characters – know what I mean?

8 June, 2022

It’s not easy to write inarticulate characters and make them sympathetic. But Prince Charles managed it once (perhaps inadvertantly). How about you?

Categories At the Quill
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Lsd – a piffiling proposal for Boris de Piffle

1 June, 2022

An open letter to Prime Minister Johnson encouraging a return to the Great British currency. Down with the decimal, up with the Imperial Lsd!

Categories Commonplace

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Most popular posts published in 2023

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It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover – a review (March)
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Character building with Lajos Egri (May)
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You are you and that’s Okey! Photos from Stockholm (September)
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It’s the end of the world and X marks the spot (August)
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Juxtaposition and Creativity (May)

Most popular posts from earlier years

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Jamestown, Accra: walking through history with Collins and Lee (2020)
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The Gothenburg disco fire – 20 years on (2018)
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Antiques and memories (2015)
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Vai: across the South Pacific – a review (2020)
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The short summer night – a translation (2020)
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