by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Dubbing or subtitles, which is better? § An age-old debate came back to the forefront in 2020 with the Oscar win for the South Korean film “Parasite”, where, at the awards ceremony, director Bong Joon-ho made a strong case for ... Read more >
by Adrien Mathot, Translation Technologist @cApStAn First of all what is a standard? According to the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) standards “provide people and organizations with a basis for mutual understanding, and are used as tools to facilitate communication, measurement, commerce and manufacturing.” What happens when things are ... Read more >
Download your free copy below Looking at standardized tests and questionnaire content through the lens of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Bias Reduction (DEI-BR) Standardized tests and questionnaires are used in a variety of contexts such as admission to university, certification, accreditation, or hiring. Fairness, validity and reliability are objectives that ... Read more >
Download your free copy below Standardized tests and questionnaires are used in a variety of contexts: admission to university, certification, hiring, or collecting information about background variables, for example. Tests and surveys may come in more than one language. While this broadens the coverage, it may create disparities if the ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Numbers do not exist in all cultures. There are numberless hunter-gatherers embedded deep in Amazonia that instead of using words for precise quantities, rely exclusively on terms analogous to “a few” or “some.” Numbers are a creation of the human ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village In the French language, all pronouns, nouns and adjectives carry the gender of the object or person they refer to. In English, the discussion around “gender neutral” language focuses on pronouns (“they”), in Romance languages such as French it is ... Read more >
REGISTER HERE Wednesday | June 2, 2021 9:00 a.m. PST, 12:00 p.m. EDT 5:00 p.m. BST, 6:00 p.m. CEST The Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey (EU-MIDIS II), commissioned by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), was carried out by Ipsos MORI in 2015-2016. This involved 25,515 face-to-face interviews with people with ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Standardized tests are used in a variety of contexts: admission to university, certification or hiring. Fairness, validity and reliability are objectives that every testing organisation claims or strives to address. Leaving aside the challenges of delivering assessments in multiple languages, ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village American artist, designer and art director Jennifer Daniel is the first woman to chair the Emoji Subcommittee for the Unicode Consortium, the official gate-keeper for new emoji. Today most of our online communication is typed: emails, text messages, Facebook, Twitter ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village The coronavirus pandemic has led to an explosion of new words and phrases in many countries and cultures. We have written about this new lexicon, and how it is helping people to make sense of the changes in our lives, ... Read more >