Tip of the Tongue

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

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

Having just translated a Russian Federation academic certificate and its accompanying transcript, I got a glimpse of how merciless a suppos...

Jean-Fran ç ois Revel in his book The Totalitarian Temptation (1977) wrote in regards to democracy (and love) that there is no accepted de...

I recently translated some articles on Putin, the elected dictator of the Russian Federation.  It brought up two seemingly separate memorie...

An alien arriving on our planet would have a hard time understanding who the boss is in the countries of the world.  Titles and powers seem...

Experts and non-experts often describe the behavior of both people and nations using the same terms.  A country can have its ego broken or ...

Looking at an advertisement for a French language learning program, I realized the exclusive club to which France belongs: countries that h...