Clue: Bolus and babbelaar
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I lost a job last week. It was a 30-page translation on children’s rights, a subject I’ve worked on regularly since summer. It would have been a straightforward job, and although in Senegal I accept fees at half my regular rates elsewhere, the amount would have nicely rounded out the end-of-the-month finances (translation: bring us Continue reading 911 Translation Some time ago, I decided to print out a couple of photos at a print shop in uptown Kingston. What occurred there was a prime example of the anti-service culture that is sadly so common in Jamaica. When I entered the print shop, it was unclear who were customers and who were staff. I asked Continue reading Anti-service Hard at work, racing against the clock, just past midnight, I found another funny example of the Cupertino Effect.
Taking a break from the political meltdown here in Jamaica, I got a tip-off from a fellow editor in Rome about a new term for spellcheck mis-corrections: The Cupertino Effect. The origin of the term, coined at the Language Log, is from the the common mistyping of “cooperation” as “cooperatino”. Bizarrely, certain spellcheckers offer “Cupertino” Continue reading Writing wrongs |
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