Archive for July 16, 2010

Reader Question: Help translate political idioms

A friend of a friend is seeking good idiomatic Slovak translations for several political terms–”Spin” “Passing the Buck” and “Doublethink” and this seems to be an ideal task for the readers of this blog.  Just leave your suggestions in the comment space below. Thanks in advance!

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Slovakia Election Post-Game: Guest Blogger Richard Swales on Preference Voting in Slovakia

I’m happy to welcome yet another guest blogger:  Richard Swales, who describes himself as follows: Richard Swales is from England, but lives in Kosice where he is married and runs Jazykova skola Start (www.jazykova.sk), a school for Slovaks who want to learn English. Richard and I have never met in person but he been such a consistent source of [...]

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