More stuff to share.

First I would like to start with study related materials.
Since stylistic analysis of text can sometimes get confusing especially if you are just studying it, it's always a good idea to have a good example on how to do it handily. As it turns out, good examples in stylistic analysis aren't all that easy to find (there are hundreds of bad ones however). So one of the good ones can be found in a ELTweekly issue and it might be a good idea to read it carefully and analytically if you are confused about stylistic analysis.
In fact, the ELTweekly by itself is definately worth to check out from time to time. I would really love to add them to my RSS feeds, but, unfortunately, even though they have the button there, they don't support RSS. And I don't really want to add even more spam in my mail.

Secondly, a most useful stuff for Latvians. Lattelecom are having a promotional campaign that lets you enjoy free internet TV for two whole weeks and in addition they offer you the chance to win a macbook air. In my opinion it's most definitely worth participating there. You can get your invitation here
The fun thing about TV is that there is so much stuff that I can let run in background and learn simultaneously just because I`m not interested in that enough to give it my whole attention and yet would like to see some particular moments of it. Well, guess it's a bad thing for television....
Too bad they aren't letting me watch their movies for free as well.

Ok, finally got a response from the skrivanek competition for young translators. Obviously I didn't manage to get to the next stage, that's no surprise, but unfortunately they didn't publish any model translation and neither did they send personal response as to how I performed, so I have no idea how many and what kind of mistakes I made. I only know that my English grammar professor, who was actually the one verifying my work, told me that I made several substantial mistakes, no further comments.
Anyway, since the results have been published, I guess I`m free to publish my own work as well.
The task was to translate The Economist article and I attached my translation of it under the cut.