Posts Tagged ‘language’

The Tower of Ryan Babel: Football, Language, and Translation

By Brian Phillips • Dec 20th, 2007 • Category: Media

In the global bazaar of contemporary football, in which a top-flight team is apt to have a Paraguayan striker, twin Hungarian left-backs, and a goalkeeper who was downloaded directly from the Internet (“JENS LEHMANN: Avg user rating: 3.2 stars. Estimated time to download: ~3 min. Note: This program has not been tested for [...]