Wine glasses

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NEXT Directory On-Line for Christmas

Using the IGI

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GENUKI: Newbies Guide by Roy Stockdill The vital thing to remember when using the IGI is that entries which are from the controlled extraction program can generally be regarded as accurate, whilst private patron submissions are to be treated with extreme caution! There seems to be a belief among some newcomers that the IGI is [...]

GENUKI: Newbies Guide by Roy Stockdill

Corporate linguistic maulings

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Pop on over to A List Apart: Articles: Attack of the Zombie Copy for an explanation of how: Every executive knows that constantly delivering superior customer value is an imperative to veritably creating shareholder value. ever came about and how you might wish to translate it to: If you want to make lots of money, [...]

A more interesting job?

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The very nice people in Control (sat in their relaxing armchairs being kept at a pleasent room temperature by air conditioning), prioritise calls in to descending order from Purple to Red to Amber to Green. The Purple and Red jobs are the most time critical. Inept Pike Fishing: a blog written by someone with a [...]

The Liberal Dissenter seems to be one of those who believe it’s alright to hold certain views and, as a fine example of his liberalism, this may even be combined with the exercise of political power. A fine example of the calibre of this individual’s critical mind is demonstrated in the following: As a confirmed [...]

I was pleased to see that the Government is to ban junk food in schools but… I sent the following email to my local MP on 16 September 2005 19:28:13 BST. I wonder whether Mr. H. intends to reply or is the Labour Party too busy working on its manicure? Dear Mr. Hendrick, I have [...]

Flock

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Posted using Flock which appears to be a robust and stable browser. It  comes with a free WordPress.com blog and flickr integration. .

Translations

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A note on translation, from a review of Anthony Briggs’ translation of War and Peace: “Secondly, this idea that a translation should be happily smooth. I agree with Milan Kundera: ‘Partisans of ‘flowing’ translation often object to my translators: ‘That’s not the way to say it in German (in English, in Spanish, etc.)!’ I reply: [...]

Motivational posters

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Don’t you just love them!