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by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
"Translation removes language barriers and makes stories borderless", says Chen Jiatong, author of "The White Fox", recently translated from Chinese to English, in article for Booktrust.org. There is, however, no mention of the translator on ... Read more >
Test Localization in Talent Management: How A Testing Organisation and a Linguistic Quality Assurance Specialist Joined Forces
Carefully crafted assessment tools often depend on subtle wording choices, which are expected to trigger certain reactions in respondents (or not). This is part of the psychometrician’s craft. The psychometrician ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Mathematicians, computer engineers and scientists in related fields should take a Hippocratic oath to protect the public from powerful new technologies, says leading reseracher Hannah Fry, Associate Professor in The Mathematics of Cities, at ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Not new, but just discovered, a very entertaining guide to English grammar by Mary Norris, who was copy editor at "The New Yorker" for 30 years (the book was first published in 2015). A ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Yes, according to Yuval Noah Harari-a bestselling author whose books have been translated into over 60 languages and sold over 20m copies-if there is a risk that the book will be banned in a specific country. Harari ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US, offers students an experimental course, fruit of a collaboration with IBM: students are "teleported" to the busy streets of Beijing, where the environment is equipped with AI capabilities to respond ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
"Nuntii Latini", Finland's weekly radio news bulletin in Latin, was, for 30 years, a familiar fixture in the country, with a regular audience of 50.000 (not insignificant in a country of 5.5 m), and keen ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
In a tweet to celebrate the 25 years of the 1994 "Loi Toubon", the French Minister of Culture reminded the French people that "the language of the Republic is French" and that they should "say things ... Read more >
by Steve Dept - cApStAn partner
At a verifier training workshop in Istanbul, our Kazakh colleague had a gift for me: a traditional Kazakh skullcap. This headgear was made from white felt and embroidered with gold thread. Wearing it would enhance my prestige and authority, ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2018 (1), speaks of the "profound loneliness" inherent in the work of a translator in a recent interview for the "Korean Literature Now" ... Read more >