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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.
February 24, 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The “Trustless” Translation
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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
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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
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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
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