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.
Fishcakes my Grandmother made
Rising to a challenge posed by WeAreEurope, I try to recreate the childhood food — “salmon cutlets” — that my grandmother used to make.
Name your weapons
Sadly, we’ve recently been learning the names of weapons. There’s one name that’s the most successful name for a weapon in human history.
A Sandstorm Summer Holiday – a memory from 1968
A Sandstorm Summer Holiday – not the best advert for Lytham St Annes, I’m afraid. This is an attempt to write autobiographical flash fiction.
Thomas Coram and the Foundling Museum
It was only by chance that Mrs SC and I found the Foundling Museum, but what a fascinating story about charity and children and the arts!