Word: translatese
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Here in Cambridge, that translates into “God bless America.”
I don’t have a problem with opt-in co-ed housing, that young men and women might live together in the same dorm room. Co-ed housing is but a minor blip in the unstoppable progressive march to further realms of modernity. And, as a practical matter...
Still, he likes to confound expectations--he wears a cross containing relics of martyred saints, but he can swear like a Quentin Tarantino character--and those who peg him as a reactionary may be surprised to learn that his new film sounds warnings straight out of liberal Hollywood's bible...
While comix travelogues have become a burgeoning sub-genre, Jessica Abel's La Perdida goes one better. It processes the experiences of the foreign traveler into a focused examination of the relationship between foreignness and being "native," particularly the nature of "Americanness." Even its liberal use of Mexican colloquialisms in...
Another day, another mall. The next morning, Alanoud shows me around BurJuman mall with her friend Raghda Bukhash, the designer of the gutra clutch bags. Under the label Pink Sushi, she also designs slogan Ts, and she gives me a peek at the one she has on under her abaya...