michealt

Name:
Tom Thomson
Joined:
11.10.2014
Role:
Retired Editor
Points:
12421
Contributions:
1211 translations, 185 songs, 7870 thanks received, 794 translation requests fulfilled for 307 members, 25 transcription requests fulfilled, added 26 idioms, explained 38 idioms, left 1957 comments

michealt

Interests

Scottish Gaelic poetry and song. . . .
Folk/traditional song (English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, Spanish, Italian - but Scottish Gaelic comes first). . . .
Pop songs and rock and so on - for example Beatles, Françoise Hardy, Bobby Solo, Georges Brassens but not most stuff more recent than that. . .
Classical music, especially opera, piano, and clarinet. . . .
Musicals. . . .
Singing (mostly folk or traditional Scottish/Irish but have sung traditional songs in other languages (French, Italian, Spanish, German) and sung in amateur opera and musical productions too). As a clarinettist I can't accompany myself when singing, so usually find a partner or sing without accompaniment.
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Languages and linguistics. . . . .
Computers. . . . .
Seeing the world. . . . .
Walking, climbing, scrambling (but climbing is out now, too old and arthritic, and I rarely get a scramble). . . . .
Reading - linguistics and computing and maths and physics, science fiction, fantasy, history and historical novels and a lot of other stuff. . . . .
Authors and singers I like: Jean Anouilh, Edith Piaff, Luke Kelly, Tommy Makem, Ciarán Bourke, Hamish Henderson, Hilaire Belloc, Calum Kennedy, Georges Brassens, Anne Lorne-Gillies, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Marcel Pagnol, Voltaire, Leslie Charteris, Jean Giradoux, RL Stevenson, Iain MacLaine, Iain MacIllEathain, Françoise Hardy....and many more, too many to list!

Many years ago I began to set up a website of Gaelic poetry and song, and a couple of things actually got put into it during a period whem i had no free time (too much work) and the provider of the webspace went bust and was taken over by someone else before I spotted what was going on. So suddenly I couldn't access the content I had provided (there wasn't much,so not a problem). Then people trying to maintain everything that was ever on he web jumped in, so that my min-web (I have to call it that because it was almost empty) was still accessible (read only, of course) for quite some time at various other addresses which appear to have been hijacked for other use now. Latest status: it's now (July 2020) apparently reappeared at least in part (perhaps 8 years ago) at a new address (http://www.geocities.ws/Paris/LeftBank/4843/index-2.html) but I don't know whether it will be hijacked again or if I can add stuff to it.

About me

Born 1944, Mathematician, Computer Scientist, Engineer; retired 2009. 3 sons, 1 daughter (who died of cancer in June 2012). 3 granddaughters and 1 grandson. Scottish, but currently since late 2009 splitting my time mostly between England and Spain, and spending as much time as I could in Spain before that (since 2005). A widower since Jan 13 2019.
If anyone wants more details, they can see my LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomthomsonsoftware.

Languages
Native
English, Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic)
Fluent
French, Spanish
Beginner
German, Italian, Latin, Russian, French (Middle French), Gaelic (Irish Gaelic)
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1211 translations posted by michealt DetailsAll Translations

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Tito Gobbi
Italian → English
170  4
Sebastián Yatra
Spanish → English
93  2
Iarla Ó Lionáird
Gaelic (Irish Gaelic) → English
80  7
Maluma
Spanish → English
54  
Ha*Ash
Spanish → English
362  3
Órla Fallon
Gaelic (Irish Gaelic) → English
60  15
Florina
French → English
108  7
Sebastián Yatra
Spanish → French
68  7
Zion & Lennox
Spanish → English
Kraftklub
German → English
Claudio Villa
Italian → English
5
1 vote, 58  5
Yves Montand
French → English
61  
Reik
Spanish → English
63  1
Sinéad O'Connor
Gaelic (Irish Gaelic) → English
39  2
Indila
French → English
41  5
J Balvin
Spanish → English
5
1 vote, 22  1
Jonas Kaufmann
Italian → English
63  
Órla Fallon
Gaelic (Irish Gaelic) → English
Giuseppe Verdi
Latin → English
49  
Soolking
French → German
42  2
Giuseppe Verdi
Italian → English
80  
Julie Fowlis
Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic) → English
56  1
Ender Thomas
Spanish → French
19  
Mairi MacInnes
Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic) → English
34  4
Giacomo Puccini
Italian → English
37  
ZHU
English → French
27  

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