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Blog postAbschied von TobiGrab eines Lakota
Letzte Woche kam die traurige Nachricht. Leider nicht ganz unerwartet, denn Tobi hatte schon nicht gut ausgesehen, als ich ihm vor ungefähr zehn Jahren kurz über den Weg gelaufen bin. Ich hatte mir damals nicht viel dabei gedacht. Wer weiß, dachte ich, vielleicht erschrecken Leute ja auch, wenn sie meine Fresse sehen und noch den Philipp vom Humboldt im Kopf haben.
Das letzte Mal hat Tobi mich zu einem kleinen Wettkampf im Bil -
Blog postThe newest health craze from Germany: Low Carp- A severe case of final devoicing
I was just minding my own business, browsing through the daily news, when I stumbled over this beauty:
German has final devoicing. Final consonants are pronounced voiceless: "d" becomes "t" at the end of a word. This is a crucial feature of a German accent in English. Germans have trouble saying "bad" and say "bat" instead. Michael Jackson, rendered by a Ger -
Blog postLudwig Thoma: Rascal Stories(Lausbubengeschichten)
This is a book written in 1905 that was handed down in our family through the generations. We all received it as children, although it is debatable whether this is a "children's book". Sure, it is somewhat of a coming-of-age story, a (pseudo?) memoir of a teenager around 1900.
For us, it is interesting to read, because it gives a glimpse of life far removed and yet quite familiar. Ludwig tells of his pranks at school -
Blog postI started noticing scammer authors mainly because I signed up with Babelcube, a service connecting authors with translators. As an aside, I have nothing against Babelcube - I think their service is very interesting and if they manage to earn money, all the power to them.
When I had a look around for books I may want to translate, I was focusing on shorter books, because full-length novels seemed too risky and the royalty share appeared too low to make it worthwhile. Among the short -
Blog postIn my brief ventures into the book publishing world, it was quite interesting to learn about the tricks of the trade. With tricks, I mean tricks, schemes, scams, whatever you want to call it. There are people angling for a quick buck all over the place, every step of the way, and every single role in the publishing business can be assumed by a scammer: author, translator, publisher. Here's the first of their stories.
The Scam Author
Self-publishing is easy nowadays, and -
Blog postMy activities as a translator of literature in the broadest sense started a few months ago, out of pure curiosity. I have been in the translation industry since the mid 1990s, first as a freelance translator of technical documentation and, since 2000, as full-time employee in a translation agency. Over the years, I encountered many different types of service and software vendors, but I was intrigued when I read about this company called Babelcube. Their business model is very different from &quo
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Blog postFranz Kafka: Investigations of a Dog
Have you read Kafka before or tried to read Kafka? Did you find his prose difficult? If so, the translation was likely somehow inadequate.
The truth is: Kafka wrote beautifully simple. With depth, yes, but using plain language.
As with other great literature, you can read his stories and enjoy intriguing or funny snippets. Or, if you are so inclined, you can dig as deep as you care to go. Or simply read and reread and see what you dis -
Blog postYesterday I watched two short lectures on mechanical and electrical forces in the cell. The first focused on how bacteria or muscle cells move by constantly building filaments, i.e. hair-like strings of proteins, that push against the membrane.
The second lecture mainly discussed how electrical action potentials in neurons are created via cascading opening and closing of ion channels in the cell membrane.
In order for a bacterium to visibly move, it probably has to sti
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