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IAL: Interlingua

At this point in our series of articles about International Auxiliary Languages, it won’t surprise you to learn that there is yet another major IAL. Though having competing IALs seems

February 24, 2022

Current events

Omicron: What’s Behind a Viral Name?

Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta! No, this isn’t rush week. There’s no fraternity or sorority to join here. Instead, this is how variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are being named nowadays.

February 17, 2022

Languages

IAL: Ido, the Offspring

From our previous articles, you have now gained some general understanding of International Auxiliary Languages. You also got a crash course in the most popular one, Esperanto. Did you know

February 10, 2022

Current events

Winter Olympics and Its Official Languages

Love winter or hate it, every four years it gifts us with an Olympic Games. This grand spectacle of snowy, icy sport is part of a centuries-old tradition. The original

February 3, 2022

Languages

IAL: Hopes Pinned on Esperanto

You may have noticed that the only International Auxiliary Language we mentioned by name in our introductory article was Esperanto. There’s a good reason: Esperanto is the world’s most widely

January 27, 2022

For Translation Buyers

Fix Your Gender-Biased Machine Translation

The de facto paradigm in machine translation still relies on a rudimentary framework known as phrase-based statistical machine translation, which refers to an approach to handling language where corpora of

January 25, 2022

Literary Translation and the Race Issue

Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, the Dutch translator that was set to translate Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb, stepped down from the translation job three days after the appointment. But why?

January 18, 2022

Languages

International Auxiliary Languages, Anyone?

Not so long ago we would have laughed at the idea of carrying around a tiny computer. That was the realm of Star Trek-level science fiction. Yet here we are,

January 12, 2022

For Translation Buyers

The “Trustless” Translation

Less Is Now Better in the World of Blockchains Blockchain technologies, NFTs and cryptocurrencies are now dominating the headlines more than ever these days. Like most any new trend or

January 7, 2022

Spielberg Wants No Subtitles for This Story

The classic Broadway musical and film, West Side Story, has made its way back to the big screen. And this time, it was directed by the great Steven Spielberg, who

January 4, 2022

Languages

RAE’s Latest Word Additions to the Spanish Dictionary

Oftentimes one of the best things about conversing with others is learning and implementing all kinds of new words. Even better when done in another language. And with over 572

December 30, 2021

For Translation Buyers

Zuckerberg’s Meta (Linguistic) Fumbling

Mark Zuckerberg announced at the end of October 2021 that Facebook was changing its name to Meta. No doubt we’re pretty familiar with the word “meta” in the English-speaking world,

December 27, 2021

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