the interlingual zoo

translations etc., maintained by martin aitken

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Dictionaries. Never use 'em myself.

Posted by Martin Aitken at 1:14 PM

Martin Aitken: This is a repository, a zoo for interlingual metarepresentations and stuff about them. It’s a drawer to put things in – and a place for snatches of translation to make themselves useful, even if they are only limbs, non-vital organs, or fragments of DNA. Whatever their biological status, they are all protected by copyright, so please treat them accordingly and drop me a line here if there’s anything you want to know.

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