It can happen...

I'm not intending to do these regularly, but when they're this brilliant, I just can't help myself - I dare say this may be the result of using a translator who does not have the required command of the target language:

Language Log: And next, facial poo

Native speaker

One thing I am utterly fed up with is people (agencies, other translators) bleating about "native speaker" as a quality mark for translation. How in the world are we supposed to appear as a group of professionals if we keep using this subjective, poorly defined and irrelevant term as some kind of a holy grail?

I may come back to this point.

Oooops...

I've left this place a bit long between updates...

I've been very busy, and when I've been slightly less busy, I have been taking a virtual stroll through the Norwegian blogosphere. I like it there. I enjoy reading Norwegian blogs, and find it easier than trying to find good blogs in English. It's quite possible that my view of my home country and its inhabitants is more thatn a little coloured by nostalgia, but it's my impression that the average quality of the Norwegian blogs I stumble across is higher than the English language ones. There are several very obvious points to be made here regarding the total number of blogs etc., but I can't be bothered.

I don't really mean that these Norwegian blogs are particularly "important", or that the content is particularly useful, but just simply that they're generally a joy to read. I don't think I'm familiar enough with the Norwegian world of blogs (I've dropped in occasionally over the last couple of months) to proclaim anything definitive about it, but wanted to say thank you for the nice and thought-provoking/laughter-inducing reads. This means that I'm not blogging a lot at the moment, as I'm having such a fantastic time reading. Go, Norway!