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Monday, August 3, 2009

Teasing out the tension of translation

August 3, 2009

There is a not quite explicitly acknowledged elephant in the room in Wayne Leman’s latest post clarifying what he means by natural English. I excerpt that post briefly to make the point, but please read it all:

Natural English is English which is normally spoken or written by native speakers of English at any particular time.
OK, [...]

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Assisted suicide: blowing raspberries at God?

August 3, 2009

Last week the UK saw the latest in an occasional sequence of euthanasia activists pushing at the boundaries of the law. One Debbie Purdy – suffering from MS – believes that there is a time when she will hold that her life has become intolerable, and wants her husband to be able to help her [...]

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