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Chinese New Year 2012: Enter the Dragon
This Chinese New Year, beginning on 23rd January, marks the beginning of the year of the Dragon. The Chinese zodiac consists of 12 animals: Dragon, Horse, Monkey, Rat, Boar, Rabbit, Dog, Rooster, Ox,...
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Major Chinese Newspaper Fluffs Satire Translation
If ever there was an example to illustrate the need for professional translation, it was this; major Chinese newspaper The People’s Daily have taken an article by the Onion as fact and consequently...
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More mince pies, please!
How many mince pies can Santa eat before he gets frozen by an evil snowflake? The more he eats, the fatter he gets, so the harder it is to escape from the snowflakes! Only carrots offer the weight loss...
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It’s all about the grammar…
If you haven’t seen the latest BBC drama Restless, then turn away now! Or better yet, catch it on iPlayer. Not only was it partly set in my hometown of Las Cruces, New Mexico, but it was full of period...
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If Jeremy Clarkson says it, it must be true…
Jeremy Clarkson often comes across as arrogant and opinionated, so although I usually disagree with him and his attempts to turn cars into spacecraft and otherwise waste my TV license fee, I will have...
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Can a cow be a box?
I don’t think a cow can be a box, but I recently spotted a child’s toy that did describe a cow as a box: The toy is a shape-sorter in the form of a cow, and is described in French as a ‘boîte à...
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