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Culturissima Blogissima: It’s magnifical!
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012. Further proof, if proof were needed, of two self-evident facts from the world of translation, namely:. I translators are a waste of money because anyone can translate;. Ii every French man or woman that the Good Lord has so graciously bequeathed to us speaks perfect English. A couple of weeks ago the French President, Mr Netherlands, decided to show off his English skills in a congratulatory letter to the recently re-elected President Obama. Friendly, François Hollande. With ...
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Culturissima Blogissima: October 2012
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012. Further proof, if proof were needed, of two self-evident facts from the world of translation, namely:. I translators are a waste of money because anyone can translate;. Ii every French man or woman that the Good Lord has so graciously bequeathed to us speaks perfect English. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). London, Paris, Marseilles, info@culturissima.co.uk. Is an international editing, translating and copy-writing agency based in London, Paris and Marseilles. Le Monde in English.
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Culturissima Blogissima: August 2012
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012. Why head for the Med when you can spend August in Paris? Paris last remaining vineyard, Montmartre. Contrary to popular belief, not all of Paris closes down during the month of August. What does happen, though, is that as soon as July nears its end thousands and thousands of Parisians flee the city for their second homes in the country or on the coast. And, let’s be honest, what could be more pleasurable than Paris without Parisians? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Travels the glob...
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Culturissima Blogissima: Fear of the Outsider
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Saturday, April 6, 2013. Fear of the Outsider. Fear of the Outsider: Part One. One of the most compelling themes of New England literature – and a recurrent motif of the region’s films, too – is “outsider-phobia”. Fear of the outsider or stranger, one might reasonably argue, is part of the literary landscape the world over (in Europe, of course, one immediately thinks of Meursault in Camus’ L’Etranger. Most of us will be familiar with Arthur Millar’s Crucible. At the same time, the motif of the menacing ...
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Culturissima Blogissima: A modern-day Odysseus?
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Monday, November 25, 2013. Crunching tyres, parched rock, dusty shingle. Nothing but an anonymous horizon for untold miles . He head of a convoy of half a dozen beaten-up Landrovers cruising south into the deepest reaches of the Sahara. Far beyond the Tuareg outpost of Tamanrasset. And south, always south, towards Niger and beyond. My head lolling, I’m tottering into sleep, barely able to resist the feverish heat, when Beni does something stupid. He cuts the engine. And winds up the window. The jeep expl...
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Culturissima Blogissima: Harraga and Hittistes II
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Monday, September 14, 2009. Harraga and Hittistes II. It gets worse (see Harraga and Hittistes I. There are reports coming out of Algeria that towards the end of August the Algerian coast-guard intercepted two-dozen would-be clandestine escapees, known as harraga. And the subject of my earlier post. Nothing new in that, except to say that one of these 21st century "boat people" was a man aged 70. Why should a man in his twilight years flee the only country that he has ever known for seven decades? Travel...
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Culturissima Blogissima: April 2013
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Saturday, April 6, 2013. Fear of the Outsider. Fear of the Outsider: Part One. One of the most compelling themes of New England literature – and a recurrent motif of the region’s films, too – is “outsider-phobia”. Fear of the outsider or stranger, one might reasonably argue, is part of the literary landscape the world over (in Europe, of course, one immediately thinks of Meursault in Camus’ L’Etranger. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). London, Paris, Marseilles, info@culturissima.co.uk. View my complete profile.
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Culturissima Blogissima: January 2013
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Monday, January 7, 2013. There are children starving in Africa. Eat your peas". A very quick post to an interesting blog on Africa. That has just been published in the Harvard Business Review. Jonathan Berman's article challenges the stereotypes that so many of us have about the continent and makes refreshing reading for Culturissima, as so much of our work and so many of our clients are based in countries such as Libya, Algeria and Tunisia. Thursday, January 3, 2013. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Travels ...
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Culturissima Blogissima: Knowing French makes you more intelligent (allegedly)!
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Sunday, October 27, 2013. Knowing French makes you more intelligent (allegedly)! Irregular verbs, unlikely agreements between words, arbitrary genders - every grammarian says the same thing: French is a difficult language to master. But what if this very complexity accounts for the success of French-speaking mathematicians? French is a "dreadfully difficult and complicated language, full of knots", so says the writer Claude Duneton in his column in Figaro Littéraire. Masculine, and why is it la. Is an in...
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Culturissima Blogissima: May 2013
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Saturday, May 11, 2013. Walid the blasphemer embarrasses Palestine. For months he was one of the most hated internet users in the Muslim world. His Facebook page, which went by the name Ana Allah. I am God), was full of blasphemous sallies and barefaced arguments in favour of apostasy. But when the mystery poster was arrested at the start of the month, to everyones surprise he turned out to be a shy young barber from Qalqilya, a small town in the West Bank. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Le Monde in English.