Free Offline Dictionary: LingoPad

For translations, I usually refer to the excellent online dictionary of LEO (German-English). Unfortunately, this is suboptimal when you are currently without internet connection. So I searched for a offline dictionary – and found it: LingoPad. LingoPad is free (though not Open Source). It can display phonetic transcriptions for many words. Besides the obvious way […]

Iran does not want to wipe Israel off the map

“Israel must be wiped off the map” This is a famous quote of Iran’s President Ahmadinejad that is used over and over to show how dangerous Iran allegedly is. Considering the publicity of this quote, it is quite surprising that almost noone knows that this is a mistranslation and crudely taken out of context. In […]