Aaron Damas, Author at Trusted Translations, Inc.

The Perils of AI Translation in Asylum-Seeking Contexts

August 10, 2023

Refugees find themselves in a singularly precarious, frustrating, frightening situation. They’ve been displaced from their home and are forced to try to gain admission into a foreign country. A country

Ancient Tablets and AI Translation

August 3, 2023

Translating between two languages is a matter of carefully constructing sentences which best convey the meaning of the original text. As such, it isn’t about a rudimentary word-per-word switch from

Miamian English: What’s That About?

July 13, 2023

Language variation is an active process. As you travel from one corner of the U.S. to the other, you will see that different communities speak the same language differently. These

Globalization, Internationalization, Localization, Translation: Work Your GILT Out

May 18, 2023

In the world of translation, there are a number of unique processes at play. There is translation itself, of course, but also globalization, internationalization, and localization (GILT). While the latter

Climate Crisis and Language Loss?

April 6, 2023

When concerns regarding the climate crisis are voiced in the West, the conversation is often oriented around Western concerns. Which is not an entirely unreasonable reality. But it is important

An Official Dictionary of African American English

February 23, 2023

A fluid thing, language can be likened to an organism, and the linguistic community within which it operates, to an ecosystem. As such, it is always worth delving into a

Has Language Become More Emotional?

January 19, 2023

Early last year, a team of researchers from Wageningen University and Research (WUR) and Indiana University published a paper purporting to have demonstrated the increasing irrelevance of facts in public

International Decade of Indigenous Languages

December 22, 2022

The linguistic diversity displayed throughout the planet’s many cultures and communities is something essential to humanity, and to what it means to be a truly linguistic animal. There is, in

Do You Speak Tutnese?

November 17, 2022

Humanity’s linguistic history is rife with languages which have passed out of use. As cultures interact, their languages evolve (consider the difficulty you might have understanding an English speaker from

Legalese Made Clear and Simple

October 27, 2022

Language is a tool by which we each attempt to make sense of a world filled to the brim with oftentimes baffling rules and regulations. There are few advocates for

Wordle Takes Over the World

September 22, 2022

Wordle, released in December 2021, took the internet by storm, and had reached nearly 3 million players in the early months of 2022. Players’ score sheets have saturated social media.

Are Language Barriers Keeping New Discoveries Localized?

September 8, 2022

The world is brimming with mind-boggling diversity. Plants and animals vary wildly by region, and in order to study a particular species of insect, or bird, or tree, one needs

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Aaron Damas