An Official Dictionary of African American English
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
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When Bad Translations Taint a Democratic Exercise
With about one in four voters self-identifying as Hispanic, Broward County in Florida is an unlikely place to find official English documents translated badly into Spanish—like ballot documentation. However, mistakes
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Has Language Become More Emotional?
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
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International Decade of Indigenous Languages
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
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A Celebration of the Arabic Language and FIFA+
Sports unite people worldwide―and in a special way, it has united people of all backgrounds, languages, and cultures. This year, Qatar, home to the 2022 FIFA World Cup, was awarded
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Six Key Arabic Words to Learn for the 2022 FIFA World Cup
As the 2022 FIFA World Cup kicks off in Qatar, it is the first time the tournament, one of the world’s biggest sporting events, will take place in an Arabic-speaking
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Gala San Diego 2022
The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) Conference in San Diego was scheduled for March 2020. I was in Miami and ready to fly out to attend the event . .
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Do You Speak Tutnese?
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
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And Now for Something Completely Different: Algospeak
Language is a living thing. Though we might not think about this very much in our daily lives, the languages we speak change with us every single day. At its
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Interstellar Language Evolution
In a galaxy far, far away… …there might be humans that don’t understand the phrase “in a galaxy far, far away”! Given the dramatic effects of isolation on language, interstellar
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