So, since my native language is English and my brain works in English (though I'm mostly communicating with others in Greek unless I'm talking with people back Stateside these days), I get called on from time to time to deliver The Expert Opinion On The English Language ( Read more... )

If anyone hears inarticulate screaming coming from the eastern Mediterranean in the next few days, don't worry. It's (probably) not another riot, just your friendly correspondent venting frustration with translating a book's worth of agreements so poorly written as to border on the incoherent ( Read more... )

One of the things that made the army incredibly stressful was the language barrier ( Read more... )

Dear document drafters ( Read more... )

Translating from Greek to English: 1 to 3 aspirins, depending on whether the writer decided to get cute and break out archaisms ( Read more... )

The assignment yesterday was to put together a summary of a memo of about eight pages. Didn't need to be a full translation, just a summary of the important points ( Read more... )

One thing about working for a firm dealing in lots of international commerce is that you end up dealing with a wide variety of businesses. Yesterday, it was renewable energy. Today, it's aerial target drones. I suppose it's inevitable that the Greeks try to retrofit old words to apply to new concepts ( Read more... )

Been late on answering requests on that words meme thingy. Things have been busy; sorry ( Read more... )

One. I f[beeeeeeeeeeep]ing hate run-on sentences in foreign languages ( Read more... )

Dear Greek document writers ( Read more... )