• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Translate This!

  • Home
  • About / Contact
  • Public Key
  • Back to Website

You’re Kidding!

Language Gone Wild

Posted: 2007-05-03 – Leave a Comment

Soeben gefunden: Die Modelle der Flash Voyager Baureihe sind bereits so gut wie unkaputtbar, falls der Speicherstick noch robuster sein soll, bietet sich das Modell Flash Survivor in der verschraubbaren Aluminiumröhre an: Da hat man als Übersetzer ja kaum noch eine … [Read more...] about Language Gone Wild

Catgerories: Language Stuff, You’re Kidding!

PR-Speak Translation

Posted: 2007-02-17 – Leave a Comment

Well worth reading: John Gruber’s translation from PR-Speak to plain English of selected portions of Macrovision’s response to Steve Job’s Thoughts on Music. Savor this one: PR-Speak: DRM increases not decreases consumer value. Plain English: Up is down. Black is white. … [Read more...] about PR-Speak Translation

Catgerories: You’re Kidding!

Parsing (cont’d)

Posted: 2006-07-17 – Leave a Comment

It isn't easy to find a snappy domain name. The good ones are all taken, it seems. And some that are taken make you wonder what the takers were thinking. Parse this: This championship art director never looked at his domain name through visitors' eyes – or maybe he's just … [Read more...] about Parsing (cont’d)

Catgerories: Internet, You’re Kidding!

How to Translate “Family”

Posted: 2006-05-17 – Leave a Comment

Meanwhile, back here in Missouri, when the state senate is not legislating “body waxing on or near the genitalia,” planning and zoning commissions seem to be eager to define what is or isn’t a family – as in the town of Black Jack. … [Read more...] about How to Translate “Family”

Catgerories: In the News, You’re Kidding!

Priorities

Posted: 2006-04-02 – Leave a Comment

Next Tuesday are elections here in mid-Missouri. Ever since moving here I had this feeling of unease about the unreasonably wide sidewalks and pedways and the large number of parks in neighboring Columbia while our roads are dangerously crowded. I did not move into rural America … [Read more...] about Priorities

Catgerories: You’re Kidding!

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Go to page 4
  • Go to page 5
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 7
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Search Blog

Flash Player

This blog started back in 2003, and many media files require Adobe Flash Player – too many to change all the entries. Flash Player is not a welcome guest anymore, and your browser may display it as a dark rectangle. Right-click on the rectangle, and if Flash is installed as an add-on you can enable it and play the media content.

Categories

Past Posts

My Weather

Los Angeles CA
Mostly cloudy
13°C
 

Santa Monica Beach Cam

B E A C H   C A M

Tweets

  • RT @Kurt_Vonnegut: Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. » 2020/07/12
  • RT @LiteraryVienna: "Lügen erscheinen dem Verstand häufig viel einleuchtender und anziehender als die Wahrheit, weil der Lügner den großen… » 2020/05/28
  • RT @chrisdocnee: And in the most Quarantine Moment ever, my son and I decided to drive all four freeways to do the full loop of LA and time… » 2020/05/03
  • RT @HonTom5: @clientsfh There are a lot of clients who want validation they would have been amazing at what you do. » 2020/04/23
  • RT @brettroberts: This is insane. Corona virus deaths vs. other epidemics from day of first death... https://t.co/4eMJVUuLVk » 2020/04/11
@translatethis

Copyright © 2021 · Translate This!