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Translation question
In a Bridgerton-esque Central European country where the correct form of address for a baron is "Baron", would it be okay for the characters to address him as such in the English translation or would that make them sound like Americans who don't understand English titles? And specifically in a sex scene, does "Oh, Baron!" sound all right? (It's a ( Read more... ) -
The Story of Yanxi Palace
The Story of Yanxi Palace is that rare beast, a historical c-drama that puts women, their lives and their relationships with other women front and centre and expects you to be interested.
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NiF vid rec
Great Nirvana in Fire vid here on AO3: Secret -
The Book of Koli
I've been having trouble going to sleep recently and had the suspicion that it might have to do with watching k-dramas on my laptop shortly before bedtime. In the hope that reading wouldn't have this effect, I downloaded The Book of Koli onto my Kindle and started that instead. With the result that I was still reading at 1am. It's great to have ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
In my last post asking for k- and c-drama recs, I mentioned a Taiwanese series I'd enjoyed called One Day or Some Day. It turns out the title is actually Some Day or One Day and
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Statistics
About 3 weeks ago, Austria and the UK had roughly the same number of confirmed cases of coronavirus. A few days later, Austria moved into very strict lockdown, while Boris Johnson blithely adopted Dominic Cummings' ideas about herd immunity and protecting the economy, went around shaking hands with everyone, and caught covid-19 himself. A bit less ( Read more... ) -
Day Whatever
I see Mr Orban has finally nailed his true colours to the mast and made himself dictator-for-life. Perhaps the EU will now seize the chance to fill some of the financial hole left by Brexit by ceasing all payments to Hungary until actual democracy - as opposed to the "illiberal" pseudo-democracy that was in place before the coup - is restored ( Read more... ) -
Day Twelve
To lose ONE health minister to coronavirus may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose TWO looks like carelessness. -
Day Ten
Yesterday Hussein, who is a very sweet boy, announced that he would like to cook for us but that the only thing he knows how to cook is Afghan rice. I said in that case I'd make something to go on top, and so dinner was a team effort. It turns out Afghan rice is fantastic. It's longer and thinner than, say basmati rice, and Hussein cooks it with ( Read more... ) -
Translation
No one wants paid translation work right now, but the odd bit of stuff drifts in now and again from people who would like it done unpaid. I'm more than happy to help the refugee charities who are currently trying to put pressure on the EU to airlift out people from the hell that is Moria and the other Greek island "camps", but I am not yet ( Read more... )