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 Hohhot.

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

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

4. Don't Forget to Flush...

5. Style Plaza or Amorous Square?

6. Anti-Japanese Puns (Humorous Text Message)

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

8. The Perils of Translating Via a Third Language

9. 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

10. Sino-Japanese Energy Game An occasional translation

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

12. Translating 'Commodities Boom' into Chinese

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

14. Transliterating "Pringle" into Chinese

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