Current events
Omicron: What’s Behind a Viral Name?
Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta! No, this isn’t rush week. There’s no fraternity or sorority to join here. Instead, this is how variants of the SARS-CoV-2
February 17, 2022
Languages
IAL: Ido, the Offspring
From our previous articles, you have now gained some general understanding of International Auxiliary Languages. You also got a crash course in the most popular
February 10, 2022
Current events
Winter Olympics and Its Official Languages
Love winter or hate it, every four years it gifts us with an Olympic Games. This grand spectacle of snowy, icy sport is part of
February 3, 2022
Languages
IAL: Hopes Pinned on Esperanto
You may have noticed that the only International Auxiliary Language we mentioned by name in our introductory article was Esperanto. There’s a good reason: Esperanto
January 27, 2022
For Translation Buyers
Fix Your Gender-Biased Machine Translation
The de facto paradigm in machine translation still relies on a rudimentary framework known as phrase-based statistical machine translation, which refers to an approach to
January 25, 2022
Literary Translation and the Race Issue
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, the Dutch translator that was set to translate Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb, stepped down from the translation job three days
January 18, 2022
Languages
International Auxiliary Languages, Anyone?
Not so long ago we would have laughed at the idea of carrying around a tiny computer. That was the realm of Star Trek-level science
January 12, 2022
For Translation Buyers
The “Trustless” Translation
Less Is Now Better in the World of Blockchains Blockchain technologies, NFTs and cryptocurrencies are now dominating the headlines more than ever these days. Like
January 7, 2022
Spielberg Wants No Subtitles for This Story
The classic Broadway musical and film, West Side Story, has made its way back to the big screen. And this time, it was directed by
January 4, 2022
Languages
RAE’s Latest Word Additions to the Spanish Dictionary
Oftentimes one of the best things about conversing with others is learning and implementing all kinds of new words. Even better when done in another
December 30, 2021
For Translation Buyers
Zuckerberg’s Meta (Linguistic) Fumbling
Mark Zuckerberg announced at the end of October 2021 that Facebook was changing its name to Meta. No doubt we’re pretty familiar with the word
December 27, 2021
Indigenous Languages’ Environmental Words of Wisdom
Climate solutions may become more feasible if our language reflects humans’ efforts to protect the Earth. Imagining a shift in language—one that puts humanity’s relationship
December 21, 2021
