A Day out at the Trollhättan Falls
Photo essay of Trollhättan Falls with pictures and short animation from the Falls in 2022. Includs Mary Wolstonecraft’s 1795 impressions.
Summer 2022 greetings!
Greetings and some pictures from holiday Sweden, summer 2022. After several posts that ran on for many words, here’s something fairly brief!
Machine translation and translating a literary text
The concluding piece in my short series about translating a section of Alex Schulman’s Överlevarna with the help of machine translation software.
Twenty-five percent less wisdom
I’ve had a wisdom tooth removed, consequently I am 25% less wise – but canny enough to use it an an excuse not to write a post this week.
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.
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!
May in the rear-view mirror
After nearly 14 years of publishing TheSupercargo, there’s a mass of posts in the rear-view mirror. Here are a few from the month of May.