John Gordon Ross

Technical translators get to read an awful lot of really bad writing, to the extent that we tend to enjoy good writing, even if the content isn’t particularly great: an annual report skilfully made rather than cobbled together out of clichés in order to mislead shareholders, a mission statement which is not a copy of [...]

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A Times article last week included a less-than-scientific Top Ten of the UK’s most shoplifted books (and I’ve got most of them. The titles, I mean, not the shoplifted ones). It’s the kind of story that when you actually get to the list, it makes you think, “Oh yes, of course,” so I’ll leave the [...]

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