These are the colors of Colorado in the fall...

In Italian schools they used to have students memorize poems - tons of them, beginning with easy ones in  elementary  school, going up to l...

This year I've been blogging a lot less than in the past few years. Part of the reason was blogging fatigue, but mostly because I've...

In the last couple of weeks this blog has been on the receiving end of a real tsunami of comment spam, mostly from one sort or another of sl...

I've noticed that much of the most recent comment spam arriving here (and nicely caught by Blogger's spam filter) is from sites that...

Friday, September 20 is the last day you can register for the ATA Conference at the discounted early-bird rate. In their reminder e-mail,...

John Scalzi, a popular SF author, and, with his 14-year-old " Whatever ", one of the first and best bloggers around, has just publ...

A translator has recently seriously proposed on ProZ a "blueboard for translators"  (scroll down until the second post by "Mi...

Although Wikipedia should always be taken with a grain of salt, the information it provides is usually a valuable help when we translate. On...

Mary Jo Bang recently published a new translation of Dante's Inferno - a modernized translation that seems to have caused quite a stir. ...