

12th January 2021
“This is the biggest imposition of red tape that businesses have had to deal with in 50 years,” according to William Bain from the British Retail Consortium. A sweeping statement you’re no stranger to if you’re currently doing your best to ensure compliancy with the new rules and regulations. The sheer volume and […]
22nd December 2020
Dictionary Double Dutch language that is impossible to understand; gibberish. Similar: nonsense, gibberish, balderdash, blather, blether, rubbish Double Dutch. A humorous and ironic term. The faux pas potential it represents is quite hilarious. Especially when you consider the sheer volume of weird and wonderful nuances every language has! The English language is as guilty as […]
8th December 2020
It’s Write a Business Plan Month this December. We’re boxing ours off ahead of the holidays. So we can take a well-deserved break. Ready to bounce back with fresh eyes in the new year. Willing and able to assist your business with translation services for every language you need. It’s been an unusual year. As […]
14th January 2020
I’ve been in sunny Portugal for the last week; a great antidote for the winter blues (and greys). As always, the food was fresh and delicious but sometimes the menu translations left something to be desired. (Not that I would be any better if I had to translate a British menu into Portuguese.) Have […]
2nd January 2020
Love – it’s the same all over the world isn’t it? Not according to research by Joshua Conrad Jackson and his colleagues from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. They examined nearly 2500 languages to ‘determine the degree of similarity in linguistic networks of 24 emotion terms across cultures’. Or, in plain English, they […]
20th November 2019
Someone kindly sent me this fabulous ‘translation’ this week. This is what you are offered if you ask Google Translate to deal with the simple concept of a paper jam. Anyone in business knows what a paper jam means. The dreaded red light appears on the printer. Inevitably, it’s when you’re in the […]