A weblog about translation and language
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From an instruction leaflet that came with a toy:
Magnastix toys are useful and creative for children and making parents satisfactory. It consists of magnetic sticks and sphere, you can splice the stick and sphere as what you like. It can spell many kinds of structure miraculously.
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture
-Anthony Burgess
To know another’s language and not his culture is a very good way to make a fluent fool of yourself
-Winston Brembeck
In this weblog, Percy Balemans writes about translation and language, more specifically, the Dutch and English language.
