Se in inglese anche voi fate fatica a distinguere tra crow, raven, rook e altri uccelli neri, spero vi piaccia questo post: blog.terminologiaetc.it/2020/05/05/cor…

En Irán y en Irak te puedes llevar un disgusto (y un tortazo a mano abierta) si le haces entender a tu interlocutor que va todo bien con el pulgar hacia arriba.👍 Hay cientos de ejemplos así, pero aquí van 15 como muestra. ¡Esas manitas! 🤘🤞👆🖖👌🤙👉👐 brightside.me/wonder-places/…

LSPs (but also applicable to many freelancers): You REALLY should read this report by Nimdzi and use it as a checklist when evaluating how badly your services will be requested by companies as end clients.

Most translators are used to procedures such as transposition, modulation, adaptation. Are you familiar with procedures such as generalization or dissolution? I was in for a few surprises when I looked at this Vinay & Darbelnet chart.

"Yes, please tag me (along with many others) in your Instagram post or tweet that I have absolutely nothing to do with. Of course it's more likely to make me buy from you" - no-one ever

The global coronavirus pandemic has heightened our awareness that time is subjective. For people who enjoy working from home, the days have whizzed by. For others desperate to travel or visit a loved one, time has slowed to a crawl tmsnrt.rs/2ZFY70r

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Behind the Scenes with a Transcreation Manager by World Writers link.medium.com/2JLECs6G19

Roveretano/Vallagarinese il mio di origine!

Do you remember the first time you learnt that Spanish had TWO verbs ‘to be’ or that a book was neuter in German, feminine in Russian & masculine in French & languages blew your mind? It’s no wonder we love passing on our passion for languages.

Now imagine seeing this format at least 20 times a day because you're a translator and you need to convert it into normal, human-readable format of DD/MM/YYYY. I think my eye twitch a little bit simply because of that.

So, how to destroy a language? Easy. Make sure that children do not get access to material such as cartoons, books or TV episodes in their own language. That's what's happening in Iceland - and probably more widely as streaming services become the norm but not in local language.

With the Covid-19 crisis still raging in the U.S., some big advertisers have chosen to sit out Super Bowl LV: 🍻Budweiser 🥤Pepsi 🚗Hyundai 🥑Avocados From Mexico trib.al/wwxFeCR

Words are important

TIL: Languages mimic each other, and tall buildings also scrape the sky in Spanish, in Italian, in French or in Mandarin.

Letter to The Times 👇

when an unvaccinated person says "i'm a critical thinker, let me show you my research" and then you see the research

"How do you measure things in France?" Metric system, everywhere, all the time. "What about Canada?" Well...

In Britain, this is actually a sentence that makes sense: “Excuse me, sorry, do you mind if I just… thanks”