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Average is worse than you think: “Avarie” linguistic tale

Lately, I have been reading a book about the influence of the Arabic language on modern French: “Nos ancêtres les Arabes” by Jean Pruvost. It’s a wonderful book if you are into linguistics and share a passion for words and how they evolved into what they are now over the centuries. Among the many words […]
November 30, 2018
Marketing Attribution – what does it mean?

I just started a new job at AdTriba, a business-to-business software provider. It sure is a major change from the language environment I was in so far! AdTriba is specialized in marketing attribution. Rather complex topic from the outside, but not so unfathomable when you start digging into it. And, since I love learning new things […]
April 12, 2017
PROMT, SYSTRAN, GOOGLE, BING – Has the age of machine translation finally arrived?

Checking what online machine translation service is best for you Some claim that learning foreign languages is a waste of time, that translators are soon to disappear from the professional market and that technology can get you from language A to language B in no time, for free and without any trouble. Myth or reality? […]
April 07, 2015
The importance of intuitive gameplay

Megadrive’s Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium was my very first role-playing game (RPG). That was back in 1995 and I was 9. As it turns out I still have the original game and I just played it through last month. 17 years later, probably for the 20-something time. I guess your first […]
August 11, 2013
Cursing in Spanish is ladylike!

As an alternative to moving to Spain to learn Spanish, I exported my own little Spanish/American neighbourhood – the idealistic, though dangerous, Wisteria Lane of Mujeres Desesperadas. How nice it is to switch language on a DVD in a second, with or without subtitles. A luxury kids born in the 90s cannot appreciate as much as […]
January 25, 2013
What if translation did not matter?

Outrageous – how could a trained translator write such a thing? Of course, I want to believe that translation is a noble profession that deserves high salaries and great respect. Unfortunately, sometimes, the translation might not matter so much. The case I have in mind to illustrate my argument is Final Fantasy VII: it was […]
January 17, 2013
The Dübel Affair

Moving to Altona involved some heavy lifting (still recovering) and of course some DIY, which is not quite where my skills shine. I enjoy it, I’m just not cut for it, except that is, for the immeasurable chaos I create. Presumably a skill of my own.
December 15, 2012