Spicks & Specks

 

Welcome to Bathrobe's Spicks & Specks! This area holds bits and pieces that don't belong anywhere else. Most of the content, of course, still relates to Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese (CJV). Material will be added from time to time.

Articles

1. Where to buy Mongolian-language books in Ulaanbaatar (including second-hand books).

2. Where to buy Mongolian-language books in Hohhot.

3. The CJV Translation of 'Weapons of Mass Destruction'

4. Year of the Sheep or Year of the Goat?

5. Don't Forget to Flush...

6. Style Plaza or Amorous Square?

7. Anti-Japanese Puns (Humorous Text Message)

8. 'Mind the Gap' in Japanese, Cantonese, and Mandarin

9. The Perils of Translating Via a Third Language

10. Translation and Rewriting Study of a speech on 'The Post-Cancun Multilateral Trading System and Asian Economic Integration' from the point of view of translation

11. Sino-Japanese Energy Game An occasional translation

12. The Export of Chinese Coking Coal An anonymous occasional piece

13. Translating 'Commodities Boom' into Chinese

14. The Chinese Mentality (1): An Occasional Piece

15. Transliterating "Pringle" into Chinese

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