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A brief confused lesson in Swedish

Posted by Edward on March 20th, 2007

Sorry Hannes, no new code yet. Instead I give you this brief explanation of Swedish grammar to confuse any non-swedish reader of this blog; if there are any. There is no apparent reason for this blog but as I finished the last book and was considering translating the title to English or not my mind […]

J. A. Göth: Bergsrådet på Lessebo

Posted by Edward on March 9th, 2007

As you might have noticed I didn’t bother to translate the title of this book. There is a very simple reason for this; the term “Bergsråd” is an old title and I couldn’t be bothered to find a suitable equivalent in english. The title can be translated, literally, to mining advisor. From 1637 to 1857 […]

Ann Cleeves: Raven Black

Posted by Edward on February 22nd, 2007

I read a book I would not normally have read and all because of an assignment in the neighbouring town. I have a bunch of books I have gotten at christmases and birthdays and never read. My taste in books tend towards adventure, fantasy and science fiction. I also like reading most books in english […]

Texas hold’em

Posted by Edward on September 24th, 2006

Yesterday I played my first game of Texas hold’em and it was quite fun. I usually have this rule never to play a game for money but decided to try it out never the less. Since there was a fixed buy-in I didn’t have to worry about loosing more money than the buy-in.

Translating idioms

Posted by Edward on September 22nd, 2006

This post was actually not going to handle about linguistics. Instead I intended to write about a new MP3 player I bought (my first). As I started formulating the text in my head I got stuck with a Swedish idiom “fallit till föga”. How the H do you translate it and still retain the idiomatic […]

Stubbed toes

Posted by Edward on September 20th, 2006

Don’t you just hate when it happens; suddenly for no apparent reason the threshold is an inch higher than normal or a piece of furniture decides to jump in front of you as you walk by. As I got up this morning I stepped briskly (I’m a morning person) out of bed and headed for […]