How I learned to compose myself and paint you a picture

Posted July 29, 2022
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Written by Colin Rae

Twenty-one years ago this month, our colleague Colin Rae arrived in the tiny town of Marfa, Texas, where he was to spend the next three months working at a local art museum. Little did he know that his time there would change his life forever.

The untranslatable Alm

Posted March 31, 2020
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Written by Kristin Fehlauer

What does the German word “Alm” mean? In answering this question, our colleague Kristin Fehlauer also explores what we really mean when we describe a word as “untranslatable” and the problems of one-to-one translation.