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Oldtajmer, evergrin, rekorder, golman… the world of Balkan pseudo-anglicisms

Did you hear about the man who collects “old-timers”? πŸ‘΄πŸ½Or that Frank Sinatra has many “evergreens”? 🌲Or the woman who was a rowing “recorder”? β–ΆOr how the best player on the field was the “goal man”? 🎯And how one unfortunate person was a victim of “mobbing” in the workplace? πŸ‘₯ These are all actual examples […]

English language translation tips: use of long forms of country names

Republic of Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ, Republic of Croatia πŸ‡­πŸ‡·, Kingdom of Norway πŸ‡³πŸ‡΄, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§, Oriental Republic of Uruguay πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Ύ, Plurinational State of Bolivia πŸ‡§πŸ‡΄ … These are the long (official) forms of the names of these countries. The names of most countries have a long form and a […]