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On the Web for geeky types! Despite it's relatively simple, plain presentation, it's become a daily stop for 1000's of readers. In the fast paced world of today where the news media seems to be more about selling headlines and agendas Futility. Join us for surprising and curious tales from the past and challenge yourself with our lateral thinking puzzles. Forgotten stories from the pages of history. Today! If the name "Greg Ross" doesn't immediately ring a bell, you might still know hisīlog " Futility Closet," one of the most consistently entertaining blogs With Greg Ross and Sharon Ross, 367 episodes, 17 ratings & reviews. Its original subtitle was "What happens when Spanish institutions and businesses give translation contracts to relatives or to some guy in a bar who once went to London and only charges 0.05€/word." I never actually did much Spanish-English translation (most of my work is from Dutch, French and German) but I was intrigued and amused by the hubristic Spanish belief, then common, that nepotism and quality went hand in hand, and by the nemeses that inevitably followed." An idler's miscellany of compendious amusements." -Futility Closet Lots of people use “beacuase” instead of “because”, but I don’t think anyone writes “Uase” instead of “Oz”.Īuthor The Singing Organ-Grinder Published įöcked Translation (414): I posted to a light-hearted blog called Fucked Translation over on Blogger from 2007 to 2016, when I was often in Barcelona. In the hour before Holland woke up I rewrote booze base access using Zend Framework – Ajax and other Greek words

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