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like a melted cheese sandwich: Catherine E. Love, Collins Pocket Italian Dictionary British Edition

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , on August 23, 2007| Leave a Comment »

When you bought this sturdy little pocket dictionary, you didn’t order salmon and a nice Chardonnay.

You ordered a Wendy’s burger with fries and skip the super-sizing. (more…)

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Good for glossing: HarperCollins Spanish College Dictionary 5th Edition (Harpercollins College Dictionaries)

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I use the Harper Collins Spanish College Dictionary on my desktop for finding quick glosses when I’m translating from Spanish to English or vice versa and need a quick memory jog. It’s not a particularly complex dictionary and so it’s great for this purpose. (more…)

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Like duct tape: Langenscheidt’s Compact French Dictionary: French-English English-French (Langenscheidt Compact Dictionaries)

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The signature yellow Langenscheidt dictionaries are like duct tape for students and others who need to have a tough, mobile, dependable bilingual dictionary that sticks to the basics without being primitive.

It meets the need in French as well as it does in German and other mainstream academic languages. (more…)

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Sooner or later, Latin comes t’ git ya’. ‘Better be prepared: D.P. Simpson, Cassell’s Latin Dictionary. Latin-English, English-Latin

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Latin is everywhere.

Maybe your Roman Catholic grandma has a mysterious phrase she repeats all the time. Perhaps you’re an academic reader and you keep stumbling upon expessions like ‘inter alia’, ‘et cetera’, ‘ibid’, ‘pace’, and the like. It’s possible you’ve stood and stared up at the semi-compelling statue in your town square, scratched your head, and told yourself the thing would be completely compelling if you had a clue what the Latin inscription on its base was rattling on about. (more…)

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The Mac subculture’s WSJ, People Magazine, and TIME: Macworld magazine

Posted in reseña, tagged , on August 23, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Macworld’s glossy monthly has been around for about as long as Apple has been making Macs. I’ve been a subscriber for most of that time and—if I had saved past issues—could probably paper Cupertino’s main streets with this periodical’s pages. (more…)

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another Heartland surprise: Indianapolis magazine

Posted in reseña, tagged , on August 23, 2007| Leave a Comment »

A little over two years ago I moved from an exotic, beautiful, international location to take a superb job in what I took to be the boring city of Indianapolis. Friends and strangers routinely asked ‘What were you smoking?’ or some variant of that question. (more…)

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the premier style guide for published American English: The Chicago Manual of Style

Posted in reseña, tagged , on August 23, 2007| 1 Comment »

It is perhaps time to worry if you feel particulary warm and affectionate towards a book like The Chicago Manual of Style. (more…)

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You’re loaded: Pocket World in Figures – 2005 Edition

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If you travel internationally or carry out your international business with this diminutive annual reference tucked in your coat pocket, you’re loaded. (more…)

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Nicely done: Hammond New Century World Atlas

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Hammond style themselves ‘mapmakers for the 21st century’ and not without justice. If they take this vocation seriously, they’d better prepare for frequent new editions, as it is as difficult now to speak of nation-states and national boundaries without saying ‘at this moment’ as it has been at any time since the breakup of the great European colonial realms. (more…)

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the blood of one’s brothers: Gods and Generals (DVD)

Posted in reseña, tagged , , , on August 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

An almost endearing stiltedness undergirds this fine film’s narrative, as though set pieces have been prepared in order to allow the characters to deliver solemn speeches Though this may appear artificial and even insincere to modern movie-viewers, it is a dramatic technique at least as old as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. What Gods and Generals shares with those ancient poetic ballads is the celebration of the fighting man’s nobility, his rage, and the juxtaposition of profoundly ordinary human sentiment alongside the most inhumane deeds one can imagine. (more…)

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