If words were to have their own popularity contest I suppose it would be word of the year or WOTY (in line with that American propensity for acronyms) established with the American Dialect Society in association with Merriam-Webster and the Global Language Monitor.Continue reading Brave new vocabulary year
EVS Translation Blog / Category: Translation industry 101
21 Dec /11
‘Tis the season
“Christmas is a way of lighting a fire in the middle of the darkness of winter…“ I swiped that (I admit) from that impossibly opulent domestic goddess Nigella Lawson, who, despite the sometimes syrupy discourse that can give you the diabetic’s equivalent of an ice-cream headache, manages to say it just so from time to … Continue reading ‘Tis the season
16 Dec /11
How to kill a translator in 10 clicks or less
“Who steals my purse, steals trash…but he that filches from me my good name, robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed.Continue reading How to kill a translator in 10 clicks or less