The French film Les traducteurs (The Translators) premiered last year in November at the French Film Festival in Prague. The plot follows a group of nine talented polyglots charged with ... Read more >
The coronavirus pandemic has led to an explosion of new words and phrases, both in English and in other languages. We have written about the new lexicon, and how it ... Read more >
When I used to run a small translation agency in the nineties, the majority of my clients were universities. Researchers wrote papers, reports and questionnaires (in elegant French, accurate German, ... Read more >
To quote scholars Barbara Byrne and Fons van de Vijver (2010), the goal of translating scales in multilingual and cross-cultural comparative survey is to produce an instrument that "measures ... Read more >
Neologisms related to the coronavirus pandemic are spreading so fast that it is hard to keep up and our article on this topic of March 25 is already out ... Read more >
"Multiples", is an anthology of multiple translations edited by world-acclaimed British novelist Adam Thirlwell and published in 2013. Thirlwell chose 12 stories, written in Danish, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, German, Arabic, ... Read more >
35-year old rapper Mikkâl Antti Morottaj, aka Amoc, is quite a celebrity in his home country, Finland. He says that through his music he is doing his part in helping ... Read more >
A mitraillette (French word for machine gun) is a type of sandwich commonly served at friteries and cafés in Belgium. The food editor of Taste Atlas says that the name ... Read more >
Academic institutions worldwide are embracing "STEM" (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) education and related curricula, supported in many cases by government funding. The STEM acronym was officially coined ... Read more >
Félix Fénéon (1861-1944), was a writer, journalist, art critic, art dealer and publisher who "shook up the world of literature" in the early 1900s by inventing a new literary genre: ... Read more >