Alan M
banner
alan1874.bsky.social
Alan M
@alan1874.bsky.social
Chair Bournemouth Interpreters' Group CIC. Translator, language consultant/trainer/author, sold more books than Liz Truss, & 1874Northwich fan/co-owner. Another twitter refugee seeking asylum here - still hiding in the Bear's Den though.
I spoke too soon
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Spanish "empire" in Africa was minimal (the red bits on this map) #wato
November 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Bilimoria thinks they're all fleeing Balamory ... I always think of the latter when I hear him.
#wato
October 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It's certainly chillingly redolent of the Aryan ideology behind the Nuremburg Race Laws
October 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This was a long post from one of them
October 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Lam's "cultural coherence" is chillingly reminiscent of Hitler's ideas of a pure Aryan race and the Nuremberg Race Laws
October 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Chillingly reminiscent of Hitler's Aryan race policies & his Nürnberger Gesetze, the Nuremburg Race Laws.
October 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Including being sanctioned by their own FA #wato
October 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It's Friday afternoon, winding down, so I've now also checked the book version ... still "human"

Excuse the pencil marks - I used it when teaching translation criticism at Uni Innsbruck!

The joke was an instance of dodgy translation, I see from the German page. But it's an impossible wordplay
October 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I have all the originals recorded off R4 onto cassette back in 1981 plus the book "Original Radio Scripts" - just checked the scripts ... "What is your name, human?" was the question.
October 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Certainly not a case of "better late than never" #wato
October 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Thanks to Kemi I realise how worthless my life in translation is. Who needs forrin transls anyway?
Though UK renewables sector finds my translated German (whisper it ...) engineering materials quite handy.
But granddad a joiner & I can turn (no pun) my hand to a bit of woodwork - I made this ...
October 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Tory Conference merch - Kemi 'I do't do gaffes' Badenoch strikes again (is that why she wants to outlaw strikes?)
#bbcpm
October 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
September 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Need there be a reason nowadays?
September 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
My own 'lurking' has been delivered a blow this evening by Musk's pesky algorithms
September 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Musk is at it again.
Not sure why I bother on there.
#newsnight #r4today
September 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Seriously? #wato
September 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A press conference full of Farage-Speak
#wato
August 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The before and after expressions say everything you need to know about the outcome of the Alaska meeting.
#bbcbh
August 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Trolling Trump? Or the whole 'west'?
Presumably he's also brought a suit.
#wato
August 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Depressing reflection of the UK attitude to languages. From the Assoc for Lang Learning statement today
#wato
August 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
In the interests of "citizen journalism"(?!?) I've just had a look at what a well-known adult website says about email verification
#wato
July 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I checked mine (translation) and my 2008 rate of 60 should according to Bank of England calculator be 98 now.
Suffice to say, it isn't. It's 78
(that's not an hourly rate, before someone pipes up, we calculate in words)
#wato
July 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM