Mommy, what color is that? It's nigger brown, dear.

Via Into Spanish (check out also Colloquial Spanish, bringing you equivalent expressions and idioms in English and Spanish, also featured on Into Spanish.

Don't look now but we have just become older than dinosaurs

Translate This!

A translator's log discovered by Margaret. Posts in English and German. He's having problems receiving money from an agency, we sympathize!

Habemus Laptop. Guess what? After almost a year in the repair shop waiting for a new keyboard I decided to take my laptop home, reformat it and make do with an attached keyboard. No sooner had we reformatted it the keyboard started working again. My computer guy says it was probably a virus, not the Mermaid Jr.'s water squirting practices.

I've been terribly busy for the last month or so, making an indecent amount of money, by my standards, that is. Sorry folks, blogging is on hold. Next week I will have more time to blog my silly stories of the exciting translation world. Speaking of which, have you already checked Transblawg? It's a blog specializing in English-German legal translation, by Margaret Marks.

I also loved these African barber shop signs found at Solipsistic.

Translation Mixed Sucesses. "Thousands of U.S.-produced leaflets dropped in Iraq before the start of the war urged the country's citizens, in Arabic, "Don't Approach Coalition Soldiers" ("la taqurib"). But Fandy says the use of antiquated or formal Arabic made the warning difficult for most Iraqis to understand. (The message was meant as a caution: Soldiers are armed.) Fandy likened it to using of Victorian-era language today."

Related: Decoding Iraq's symbols of celebration via Damslog (new linguablog?)

Linguabloggers on MSBC. Oyez oyez! We've been mentioned by MSNBC Weblog Central. Let's straighten up the tie and sport a nice smile for the photographers and crowds.

And wouldn't you know: Japanese smileys are evolving differently from your standard fare of Western emoticons.

via geisha asobi

What is lorem ipsum?

via boing boing

Language-related links:
In search of the first language (PBS)
The vanishing verb- the rise of TV-speak (PBS)
The Language of the Vietnam War (PBS)
Review of book Atoms of Language(Human Nature)
Not your father's encyclopedia (Wired)
Wanted by the FBI for questioning: Adil Pervez. Or is it Adel Pervaiz? Adil Pervaz, maybe? (Wired)

And interesting article and news from nonharmful and Der Famose Flämische Blogger (maybe der famose is not the source, I had a couple of pages open, but I can't see how anyone will fail to see the poignancy of this)
Economists tackle US obesity
The Political limitations of culture jamming

New Translator Blog? Looks like it. He is posting about Jean Hardoin, aptly described as Christian, Scholar, Translator and Kook. In any case, let's throw him a link: Machine Translation - How to program common sense?

Transnotes. Julio Juncal has jumped on the blogging bandwagon. Hooray!