par Uri Sluckin | Jan 11, 2016 | Tradwell
Tradwell, L’Art de la Traduction n’a pas pour vocation d’écrire des articles sur le passage vers l’au-delà des personnalités du monde de l’art. Néanmoins, l’annonce de la mort de David Bowie m’a bouleversé à tel point que seul un hommage diminuera la peine. Read more Tradwell, L’Art de la Traduction n’a pas pour vocation d’écrire des articles sur le passage vers l’au-delà des personnalités du monde de l’art. Néanmoins, l’annonce de la mort de David Bowie m’a bouleversé à tel point que seul un hommage diminuera la peine. I became a follower when Rebel Rebel hit the air, taken from 1974 Diamond Dogs it made me look up and listen. The music was catchy, yet it wasn’t only about music. It was about colour and ambiguity; it was about doing it your way. Lady Gaga didn’t invent multiple personality changes, David was there decades before. His 1983 commercial songs, China Girl or Let’s Dance made us boogie in The Camden Palace; he sung with Freddie Mercury Under Pressure and was very strange in The Men Who fell To Earth. So, instead of joining the thousand savvy pundits busily writing wordy missives, Tradwell took random bits from several David Bowie hits, just a few as he leaves us with 274 titles, so very representative of the poetic rock and roll dream. « Look up here, I’m in heaven » taken from Lazarus and the fact that he was soon to die gave his words a special poignancy. A sort of « Morituri te salutant » of a true music warrior dedicated to his craft until the edge of the eternal night. Play them today and...
par Uri Sluckin | Jan 4, 2016 | Tradwell
Adblocker, noun: A piece of software designed to prevent advertisements from appearing on a web page. They say sites would die without popups, we say: not all the time on all sites, please! Read more Brexit, noun: A term for the potential or hypothetical departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union, from British + exit. Key questions answered by following this link. Dark Web, noun: The part of the World Wide Web that is only accessible by means of special software, allowing users and website operators to remain anonymous or untraceable. Click here if you want to shed some light on it. On fleek, adjectival phrase: Extremely good, attractive, or stylish. Right on the top of a trend, like Cara Delevigne’s eyebrows. Lumbersexual, noun: A young urban man who cultivates an appearance and style of dress (typified by a beard and check shirt) suggestive of a rugged, outdoor lifestyle. Celebrities love it. Refugee, noun: A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. Used and abused throughout the media. Sharing economy, noun: An economic system in which assets or services are shared between private individuals, either for free or for a fee, typically by means of the Internet. In what is called collaborative consumption, the sharing economy or the peer economy, owners rent out something they are not using, such as a car, house or bicycle to a stranger using these peer-to-peer services. The company typically has an eBay-style rating or review system so people on both sides of the transaction can trust the other. With the popularity of...
par Uri Sluckin | Jan 4, 2016 | Tradwell
L’année 2015 a vu naître une floppée de nouveaux mots pour décrire l’offre grandissante en matière d’orientation sexuelle. Les discussions sur le coming out of Caitlyn Jenner en jupe et Louboutins hautement médiatisées ont introduit toute une nouvelle terminologie. Tradwell propose un lexique pour vous aider à bien naviguer dans les eaux de plus en plus troubles définissant les genres zeitgeist. Read more LGBTQ/GSM/DSG/QUILTBAG LGBTQ is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning; GSM is gender and sexual minorities; DSG is diverse genders and sexualities. Quiltbag is queer, undecided, intersex, lesbian, transsexual, bisexual, asexual and gay Ally A person who supports and respects members of the LGBTQ community, as above. Even if the word doesn’t mean action, consider people to be active allies people who take action upon this support and respect. It also indicates to others that you are an ally. Bigender A person who fluctuates between traditionally “woman” and “man” gender-based behavior and identities, identifying with both genders (and sometimes a third gender, let’s say asexual). Biological sex A medical term used to refer to the chromosomal, hormonal and anatomical characteristics that are used to classify an individual as female or male or intersex. Cisgender A person whose gender identity, gender expression and biological sex align i.e. a manly man born a man, a ladies man, so to speak. Coming out The process by which one accepts and/or comes to identify one’s own true yet hidden sexuality or gender identity. It’s meant to be a self-declared and admitted, yet more often than not it’s done via social media, so it also denotes the process of sharing...
par Uri Sluckin | Déc 9, 2015 | Tradwell
Last Sunday French people voted, leaving the already well twisted political knickers, as predicted by Tradwell, in such a knotted state that even the most aroused politicians in a dreamy state of electoral priapism and gleeful journalists omnipresent on all earthly media will need extra greasy pair of hands to cover the very much exposed and rather carelessly wiped political derrière. Read more One needs to be a native, or like Tradwell a long-standing, persistent immigrant to fathom what’s really going on and what’s at stake. Not very much, if one disregards the existing elite’s hubris. French regional power is all about school canteen serving pork, or not and deciding if a bus taking kids to school is to be equipped with emergency Nutella jars. The political dinosaurs are so preoccupied with cementing their sagging bottoms to the three-legged chairs they’ve been occupying for such a long time that it brings memories of Tradwell trying to understand his mother signing up to the communist party whilst changing the prodigal son’s name in order to avoid any suspicion of non native affiliation. The new leader is a nice person, she said; he understands his people and will make it better. Which incidentally was the truth as Tradwell was able to fulfill his dream of tasting Coke, in a liquid form, from a tin amorously shared with a gorgeous blonde sitting on his knees. The now-respected psychologist blonde only noticed her miniskirt riding past her hips when her furious father pounced. Tradwell escaped through the widow of the communist council flat, followed by insults bringing to bear the oft talked about...
par Uri Sluckin | Nov 5, 2015 | Astuces traduction, Global, News, Tradwell
Significant new words of the year 2015 have been published by Collins Dictionary, with ‘dadbod’, ‘manspreading’ and ‘transgender’ featuring prominently. But with new ways of registering, downloading and streaming of your favourite series it’s not surprising that ‘binge-watch’ has been chosen as the Word of the Year for 2015. Read more Significant new words of the year 2015 have been published by Collins Dictionary, with ‘dadbod’, ‘manspreading’ and ‘transgender’ featuring prominently. With new ways of registering, downloading and streaming of your favourite series it’s not surprising that ‘binge-watch’ has been chosen as the Word of the Year for 2015. Dictionary compilers have seen a huge increase in its usage as a survey found that almost all of us conceded to « binge-watching » – watching more than the two nightly episodes of a series in one sitting. The CollinsDictionary.com definition of the in-word: « To watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession. » Netflix or Watch Series, or Canal + digital video recorders make it easy for fans to watch what they want, when they want, for as long as they want. New kinds of internet-inspired series, such as House of Cards or Breaking Bad are being viewed entirely without the thrill of waiting for the weekly installments and then discussed and digested ad nauseam on the social media. The new, controversial UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn inspired a term based on his far-left economic policies: Corbynomics. A regime of « clean eating » refers to avoiding processed foods and eating a lot of raw, untreated and unrefined produce. Male binge-watchers who do not adhere to this diet...
