Tip of the Tongue

  I ntro - short biography Grace Shalhoub is a court-certified legal translator based in France, specializing in legal and technical trans...

  Traditionally, legal language has two purposes: to provide a precise term and to prevent the uninitiated from understanding. The Plain Lan...

  [house*] As the old joke goes, the only certainties are death and taxes. Regarding the first, none of us, as far as I know, have any perso...

[Chateau d'Angers*] I enjoy attending translator conferences abroad. They represent not only an opportunity to learn, network and travel...

  [Paris roofs*] Travelling to an unknown location is exciting, at least for some people. The prospect of encountering a new culture, hearin...

  [Man looking through a telescope*] ' Sometimes a person visits another family or country and discovers that an alternative way of doin...

  [Eifel tower*] A few weeks ago, I had the special and unexpected pleasure of listening to an online session of the SFT, the French associa...

  [Throne*] The art of translating goes beyond knowledge of language and encompasses comprehension of culture. A professional translator mus...

                                          (Japanese picture of man in boiling water*) As a continuation to two previous posts about w...

                                              [Bust of King Louis XIV, "the Sun King"*] Human societies share a base cor...

Numbers have significance well beyond their quantitative meaning.   For example, the term 24/7 is universally understood to mean around th...