Culture
Foods and the Places They’re Named After
Baked Alaska, Chicken Kiev, Buffalo wings . . . there are so many foods you’re probably used to calling by the names of places around
September 14, 2023
Translator Problems I: How to Translate Food
As has been mentioned numerous times on this blog, many translation issues arise at the intersection of the vast number of different cultures and ways
October 20, 2014
Issues of Linguistic… Taste
In the previous entry, we dealt with the connotations that animal names have in different languages. On this occasion, we will take a look at
February 27, 2014
Curiously Specific and Unusual Words
In a recent post we wrote about the longest words in world, and commented on the particular power of synthesis and specificity that the German
October 3, 2013
A menu in Spanish
Continuing with the “Olympic spirit”, I read recently that before the 2006 Olympic Games in Peking, the city carried out a translation and a “standardization”
September 5, 2012
