Tip of the Tongue

For airplanes and shuttles, redundancy is beneficial while for languages, it is traditional and mindless.  In other words, certain expressi...

In my town in Israel and most towns worldwide, ten years ago, the husband (or other family member if he was not available) took out the gar...

A man’s (or a woman’s) house is his castle, or so they say.  It can also be his status symbol, social hall or just dormitory, all depending...

For Jews everywhere including in Israel, Pesach (Passover)  is a unifying holiday.  Jews of all strides celebrate it, from atheists to ultr...

Americans live in a certain and stable world.  The United States has elections every four years, no more, no less.  The French have even mo...

The pace of globalization, whether regarding products or language, is not uniform throughout the world.  As many American tourists have dis...

As a translator of written texts, my main focus is the transfer on the content and style of the text to be translated into the equivalent i...