Autobiographical
My life and the future
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- Part 14. Work and Summer Romance, with France Predominant
- Part 16 Translation software, machine translation and its sidekick AI. The risks and opportunities for professional translators
- Part 15 – And Now for Something Completely Different
- Part 13. End of an Era and Into the Unknown
- Part 12. Foreign Education, Unexpected Trials and Tribulations
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The launch of Top of the Pops was a key event for many young people in 1964. It also coincided with the election of the Labour Party led by Harold Wilson, which ushered in a period of low unemployment and prosperity, albeit at the same time as a balance of payments crisis. Known as the…
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I have to apologise again as my story will have to wait a little longer. I realised recently after chats with friends (the outstanding confidence coach and special needs teacher Russell Edwards, for one – https://www.russellrkedwards.com) that I should say more about my mum, and in passing my dad. Notwithstanding the health issues that mum…
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I was going to start on my story, but then realised that there is still a way to go with my dad. On honeymoon my dad discovered that my mum had some health issues that her parents had opted not to disclose. However, this did not make him love her any less or seek a…
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So World War II ends in 1945, with the United Kingdom allegedly one of the victors. However, it didn’t feel like that to the returning soldiers or the population back home. Wars are expensive. The country was effectively bankrupt at the time. They also tend to have a detrimental impact on society, especially in case…
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In the late 1930s, tensions had been growing internationally. After Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of the German Reich (otherwise known as Nazi Germany) in 1933 and assumed definitive control domestically, he turned his gaze further afield. The annexation of Austria in the Anschluss of 1938 and Sudetland in Czechoslovakia was followed shortly afterwards by…
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A short introduction. My name is Basil. I am a professional translator from Russian into English. However, as artificial intelligence and the continuing war between Russia and Ukraine are having a deleterious impact on both revenue and emotions, I have decided to deploy the extra time available to start a blog about my parents, the…
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