In the framework of an international assessment study, PISA, some years ago I was asked to verify the Italian version of the Home Questionnaire, aimed at collecting ... Read more >
Tired of the corona infodemic and endless doomscrolling? Take a break, join a covideoparty and chill out with a quarantini ...🍸 New words and phrases such as these are popping ... Read more >
A Florida county is reminding people to maintain a distance of at least one alligator between each other, and a jounalist for CNN suggests imagining the safety distance ... Read more >
Recent research by Ted Gibson, Professor of Cognitive Science at the MIT, and Bevil R. Conway, Investigator at the National Eye Institute's Sensation, Cognition, Action Unit, NIH, aimed to understand ... Read more >
Never before has translation been as important as during the current coronavirus pandemic. Understanding relevant medical terms is vital at all times but all the more so during a global health ... Read more >
Molly Young is the literary critic for New York magazine and a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. In a recent article about corporatespeak she provides interesting insights about ... Read more >
Apostrophes are said to date back to the early 16th century and originally served to signal that something had been removed from a word. During the 17th and 18th centuries ... Read more >
People across China have been very creative in past weeks in finding ways to get around the ban on an article that was critical of how the government handled the coronavirus ... Read more >
"Two of the most widely felt symptoms of the coronavirus are uncertainty and confusion, and part of this is about jargon", says the author of a recent article in Time. ... Read more >
Was the removal of the Parthenon Marbles by Lord Elgin, who brought them to Britain in the early 19th century, "legal"? A leaked draft of EU paper stirs Parthenon marbles ... Read more >