Language is a virus from outer space
So far, we (meaning I) have looked at language and translations as: – a deterrent to cultural genocide – a form of time travel –
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January 29, 2016
Consider the Octopus
A few posts ago we were talking about the ever-growing presence of emoticons, emojis, animated gifs, and other visual forms of communicating; and also, how really
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January 8, 2016
I see what you mean (or: The untranslatable yellow face of doom)
It’s been mentioned here before, the use of emoticons to communicate to each other, and questioning if this might be a new form of communication,
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December 10, 2015
Memo from the Sports Desk, pt. 1 (or: Superman vs. QA vs. Panda)
Look up in the sky! Is it a plane? No! Is it a bird? No! It’s Supermaaan! I’m sure I’m not the first one to mention
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October 26, 2015
By the time you finish reading this, three or four languages will die
There’s a scene in Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World, where the filmmaker goes around the McMurdo base in Antarctica, interviewing the
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October 5, 2015
Fear & Loathing in the Editing Room, pt. 1 (or: Translation Memories vs. Projects vs. Term Bases vs. Godzilla vs. Broken coffee machine)
“People engage in conversation, for it is there that news is communicated […] A molla will stand up in the middle […] and begin to
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September 15, 2015
Kiddo, you have a God-given gift (or: Chant down Babylon – what the Vatican doesn’t want you to know)
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech (Genesis 11: 1) So either you already know the story or not,
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August 21, 2015
You, the time-binding animal
Alfred Korzybski was a Polish guy that came up with this thing called General Semantics. Not to be confused with semantics as in the meaning
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August 3, 2015
We have to finish this simple: notes toward an experiment
Heraclitus was an ancient Greek philosopher. He wrote in cryptic verse, purposely obscuring his philosophy in almost riddles, so as only the initiated could fully
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July 13, 2015
