Fluid Translation

04/06/2021

How to use some extra time productively this summer!

27/01/2017

The Zipf mystery can't explain why the frequency of word usage follows a predictable mathematical function in English. And in every other language. An ancient conundrum that even applies to languages we haven't yet been able to decode. https://youtu.be/fCn8zs912OE

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02/06/2016

Should you use Internet or internet? One is becoming archaic.

“Long strings of capital letters are ungainly,” ‘Internet’ will soon seem as outdated as ‘internetwork,’ and other thoughts on changing Times style.

04/04/2016

When clarity means everything!

Brits and Americans often disagree. For example, you'd get two very different responses if you called a sport "soccer" in the US and if you tried to do the same in the UK.

22/01/2016

Don't be caught being a Monday morning quarterback http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2014/09/19/10-american-slang-terms-phrases-confuse-brits/

[caption id="attachment_4749" align="alignnone" width="612"] Pork (Photo: Fotolia).[/caption] Like any other language, American has its idioms. Some are very similar to British English, and it’s...

20/11/2015

Here are some more we love: parliament of owls, army of frogs, crash of turtles, clutter of cats, gaggle of geese, leap of leopards, and of course murder of crows!

12/11/2015

Stuck in a copywriting rut? Try some of these.

Definitely no kruger-spoof.