Yuletide mystery No. 2: I don't quite get the appeal of panettone after Christmas dinner either, even after 24 years living in Italy. It's certainly lighter than Christmas pudding, though. I prefer panettone warmed through in the oven, for breakfast.
14.12.2024 13:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Yuletide mystery: how do people manage to eat Christmas pudding – especially with custard/brandy butter/cream – after a full turkey lunch/dinner? How do they find the room? Answers on a Christmas card, please.
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I love that! And glad for the further confirmation that your sense of humour's still intact!
14.12.2024 12:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I do love @merriam-webster.com They so clearly enjoy language.
14.12.2024 12:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So true. And these overviews are SO annoying!!!
14.12.2024 12:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good grief!
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10 things you might not know about wombats
Get to know South Australia’s most commonly-sighted wombat species – which can run almost as fast as Usain Bolt.
I've become a bit obsessed about wombats. Here are 10 interesting wombat facts (well, I find them interesting anyway). A group of them is called "a wisdom of wombats". Isn't that great? www.environment.sa.gov.au/goodliving/p...
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Thank you Catharine! And nice to see you here.
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And you!
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Welcome to Little Giant
It might be a little wine, but it’s got giant flavour. Charge your wine glass in support of the wombat today!
One thing I like about translating is that you're constantly learning new things. Well today my learning came from wine-drinking. Little Giant wine, to be precise. All you ever wanted to know about wombats ("vombati" in Italian) but were afraid to ask www.fourthwavewine.com.au/pslink.cfm?r...
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So I've finally got round to creating a BlueSky account. The next step is to transfer my Twitter/X contacts, which is likely to take some time as I need to edit the list as I go. And the to-do list gets even longer…
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Yes, it's a different experience. Finding some friendly translator and ITI faces is a good place to start!
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Sweary stuff about swearing from a group of linguists, lexicographers, and language lovers. Strong Language blog: https://stronglang.wordpress.com
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Two books published this year - Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal and poetry collection Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth
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Fun facts, exhaustive etymologies, & informative infographics for both linguists & laypeople
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True but unserious facts about language history every day! unless it’s raining or I’m busy. Blame @coolhand
Editor and language guy at The Economist.
Author of Writing With Style: The Economist Guide (2023).
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Financial translator and recumbent triker
Interesting stuff I find about languages, language learning, linguistics, and translation
FR to EN translator, medicine & music - book http://bit.ly/2QMXr98 | UCL teaching fellow | linguistics MA | viola player | я изучаю русский язык | Coventrian
We are an independent publisher based in Bristol, UK. We publish titles on applied linguistics, multilingualism, second language acquisition, language education and translation. We also like bunnies and cake.
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Writer, technology teacher, translator, scientist. Retired to the Portuguese countryside in the borderlands with Spain.
The official space of UCL's Centre for Translation Studies (CenTraS).
The ATII (formerly the ITIA) is the only professional association representing the interests of practising translators and interpreters in Ireland.
English-Spanish Sworn Translator (Traductora Jurada). MITI, ScotNetter, Asetrader. Legal, training courses, education, sustainability, literature. Flew from the Spanish mountains to the Scottish hills.
Freelance linguist. French/Spanish to English translator with a background in computational linguistics and forensic linguistics. Enjoys training AI models to write like humans while steadfastly Team Human.
