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by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Attempts to create an "interslavic" language date as far back as the 17th century. The current version of Interslavic, or Medžuslovjanski, was established in 2017, and was the fruit of the merging of the Slovianski ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
The conversion of verbs into nouns is called "nominalisation" (the opposite, turning nouns into verbs, is called "verbing" or "denominalisation"). There are two types of nominalisation. The first involves adding a suffix: the verb "to investigate" produces ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
As of October 2019 there are 3.019 officially approved emoji. Anyone can submit a proposal to Unicode and make their argument for inclusion of a particular emoji - this has worked well in past years ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
One year ago one Danina Lupsa, who is a translation technologist and translation project manager for cApStAn, wrote an article for our blog in which she deplored the lack of legal protection for the translating ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
The Collins Dictionary has just announced its 2019 "Word of the Year" (WotY) and it is "climate strike". The term was first registered in 2015 during the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, when the ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
"Far-right leaders often call for one nation united under one language but, at the same time, they have always been good at using translation to spread their politics". This is the opening line of a recent ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
In a very entertaining article for a recent issue of The New Yorker author and journalist John Seabrook recounts his experience with predictive text AI, and, in particular, with "Smart Compose", a feature introduced by ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
A new anthology of poetry from around the world, edited by poet and UK National Poetry Librarian Chris McCabe, gathers together 50 poems in languages from around the world that have been identified as ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
A recent article by David Adger, Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London, for the BBC's "Science Focus" magazine, addresses the age-old controversy among linguists about whether human minds are set up to ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Four out of the six shortlisted books for the 2019 "Warwick Prize for Women in Translation", and four out of five for the 2019 US "National Book Awards" for translated literature, do not mention the translator ... Read more >