Baabel.biz Translation Services

For all your translation & copywriting needs (German English Luxembourgish). I tweet about language, culture and translation. Sometimes.

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Hi, I'm Nadia, I work as a 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇱🇺🇫🇷 translator in Luxembourg (after 18 years in the UK). I love cycling, running and my cats.
I have a lot of opinions, but those belong on my personal account!

[Baabel.biz Translation Services @BaabelBiz]

FINALLY, over six months after buying it, I have put my amazing new logo on my social media profiles. Yay! Do you like it?

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https://t.co/WREzFH2IKP

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My work Twitter account is so sad. Happy belated International Translation Day? *lol*

[Babel Babies @Babel_Babies]

@AllThingsLing @lingthusiasm 👋🏻 Tomorrow is the first International Day of Multilingualism (read all about it https://t.co/WQ9cxGuJAU) Please tweet #multilingualisnormal at 0900/2100 GMT to get people talking about #languages! Tusen tack! Danke! Merci! Grazie! Obrigada! Diolch!

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Unübersetzbarer Witz des Monats:
„Warum sind Fische so schlau? Weil sie in einer Schule schwimmen!“
(Schwarm = school auf Englisch)

[Baabel.biz Translation Services @BaabelBiz]

I just realised that this account has nothing personal about me at all. I mean, it IS my business account. But it also shouldn't be quite so faceless. So I'll briefly introduce myself & pin that tweet.

[American Literary Translators Association @LitTranslate]

A very happy Valentine's Day to our community, far and wide! We love the black magic, osmosis, and (gasp!) hard work you do. And if you feel like showing ALTA some love today, send us a box of chocolates over here: https://t.co/2vrSz26jf6

Credit to Tom Gauld for the comic!

[Baabel.biz Translation Services @BaabelBiz]

Don't speak German? Very briefly:
1. rutsch/slide could be synonymous with travel, journey.
2. it could be from Hebrew "Rosch ha schana tov" and entered German via Yiddish and Rotwelsch.
Learnt something new!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR, TWITTER! In Luxembourgish:
"E schéint neit Joer" or "e gudde Rutsch!" Meaning "a good slide". Why? German Wikipedia to the rescue: https://t.co/nClAmlsDf7 #language #translation

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I've updated all my social media with flags and all. Feel free to add me on LinkedIn and/or Facebook:
https://t.co/78jpo6YTvs
https://t.co/oTB9x7knLB

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I don't post often enough. Hiiii I have a new header with flags representing the languages I translate! #translation

[Anthony J Myers 🐝🦁🐼 @ajmy]

I just love words, especially if they are foreign and even more if they are untranslatable into English.

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The huge benefits of working in your second language - apparently, it gives you "emotional distance". Well then!
https://t.co/lT7AriEHlV

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Email from a new contact at an agency: "heard some positive feedback on your work from one of my colleagues". THAT IS WHAT WE LIKE TO HEAR!

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

“A translator always makes choices.”

Classicist Dr Emily Wilson is the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English - and she found that many men before her added sexist or misogynist terms that never existed in the original Greek.

[James Chapman @chapmangamo]

Today's tweet theme is BIRDS! The flappy guys from the up above. I'll be posting bird-related wisdom from around the world all day!

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Having just realised the May Bank Holiday is upon us, I will take some time to think about it. :)

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I've written a long blog post about localisation into Luxembourgish, but I realise I am basically saying "don't hire me, you don't NEED TO translate into Lux" and so maybe I shouldn't post it? *lol* #translation #TranslationThurs

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@ProZcom they were all job offers sent through the site, but I had opted out of those previously and they were somehow reactivated by my logging into the account!

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Logging into @ProZcom for the first time in forever and immediately getting related spam = boo.