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. Cross-linguistic comparison of 'compared to the previous month' type expressions

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

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

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

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

6. Don't Forget to Flush...

7. Style Plaza or Amorous Square?

8. Anti-Japanese Puns (Humorous Text Message)

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

10. The Perils of Translating Via a Third Language

11. 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

12. Sino-Japanese Energy Game An occasional translation

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

14. Translating 'Commodities Boom' into Chinese

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

16. Transliterating "Pringle" into Chinese

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