Angela Dickson is on Bluesky

FR to EN translator, medicine & music - book | UCL teaching fellow | linguistics MA | viola player | я изучаю русский язык | Coventrian

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@LNRailway Thanks - on the day I thought that wouldn't be possible (haven't the refund rules changed recently?) and I guess it's too late now. Still, you live and learn!

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@LNRailway hi! Recently I bought a ticket from Coventry to Nuneaton but was unable to board the train because it was too busy with Take That fans. I didn't travel at all. A Delay Repay claim has been denied as the train wasn't delayed. Should I have tried to get a refund?

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@CeliaRichards0n Looking through the election booklet, there don't seem to be the contentious member motions there have been in the past - are Restore Trust giving up? I note some of the candidates do appear influenced by RT's agenda.

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@sovietvisuals My son loves both chess and cats so this would be perfect for him, but unfortunately the shipping costs are prohibitive! I didn't realise you weren't in Europe.

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@RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret Maybe too late but possibly one for next week - how might it be possible to place greater levels of constraint on US presidential executive power in future? I'm aghast that he can just DO all this in the way a British monarch or prime minister couldn't.

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Re Squid Game etc, there are great translators out there and surely poor subtitling doesn't help a show's international reputation (though plenty still watch, clearly). But the budget for good subtitling often seems not to be there, even for very expensive programmes.

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@restisents enjoying your New Year's Eve episode. I'd love to hear you two do a deep dive into subtitles, both translated and otherwise - currently viewers are poorly served at times. Currently watching All Creatures Great & Small on channel 5 app and the subs are terrible...

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@isabeltransl8s Missed this at the time - I am a fan, to the point that I immediately know at what point this song was sung, and has indeed wondered! What a beautiful voice she has.

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Turning to @BBCRadio3 for a while. Having hugely scaled back my presence I now don't think I can in all conscience remain on this platform under current ownership. Shame the alternatives are so fragmented. Cat is blissfully oblivious of human politics.

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@maitlis Absolutely not interested in Johnson's view of all this, so I'm not tempted to stick with you guys, sorry. Your earrings are magnificent, though.

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@LevParikian Lovely. My childhood cat (who had little brain and was also a bit mean, but we didn't know that when we got him) was called Huckle, because of our Scarry books.

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@Rosenkrantz Oh bugger, hope you feel better soon. I have had something that certainly felt like COVID, though a test early on was negative (then I ran out of tests). It's dragged on, more or less better now though.

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@timothymachin @RhonddaBryant @britishmuseum @NationalGallery I went for free courtesy of the French government (either as an educator or under-26, I forget which) when I was on the British Council assistantship scheme.

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@covparkranger @coventrycc Nice work! The swans seem to be doing really well this year - last time I looked there were ten, including last year's two cygnets I think.

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@nickrosenthal Similar findings in Germany earlier this year - a different experience from a few years ago when things seemed more expensive in the euro zone.

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@Franco830531811 @VoteHarrisOut @KamalaHarris @mcuban I'm saying there has been inflation in lots of places. Did the current US administration cause all of it? How would Trump's tariffs help?

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@the_germanist @wrongsreversed Ooh, I have long done that minus the peanut butter - I'll try your version next time!

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@RestIsPolitics @campbellclaret @RoryStewartUK Sound quality isn't great today (I don't think it's my equipment)

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@seatsixtyone Nice to see Euston on a good day!