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About: gringo

Full Name

Colin Brayton

Website

http://cbrayton.wordpress.com/

Details

I'm a journalist, editor, writer and translator from Brooklyn, New York and São Paulo, Brazil, with interests that include financial technology, enterprise IT integration, oral-formulaic poetry, urban planning, "Why capitalism thrives in the West and fails everywhere else" (Hernando de Soto), Guimarães Rosa and the cavaquinho. I'm married to the Mina de Letras.

Posts by gringo:

• December 10, 2008 Sweetness and (Electrical) Power

• November 12, 2008 From the “Lost in Translation” File

• July 18, 2008 “There Are Some Real Ratfinks in the Translation Industry”

• July 17, 2008 Why The Brazilian Federal Police Could Have Used A Good Editor

• July 13, 2008 Credit Where Credit Is Due

• July 13, 2008 Translation Nation

• July 8, 2008 The Corporate Actions Newswire as Translation Corpus

• July 7, 2008 Downes’ Syndrome: The Times on “The Death of Copyediting”

• July 6, 2008 “Rough Translations” Are The Latest Internet Craze!

• July 5, 2008 What’s Portuguese for “Legal Mumbo-Jumbo”? Translating Into Plain English

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