Long before Tom Cruise or John McCain, "Maverick" was the name of a Texas landowner who refused to brand his calves. Ben Zimmer on the strange journey of the term. Via The Wall Street Journal. wsj.com/articles/maver…

Where did the term "bear market" come from? Actual bearskins. Well, 16th century bearskins. wsj.com/articles/bear-…

The interplay of #languages in the brains of #bilinguals. medicalxpress.com/news/2022-07-b…

Will Prince Charles be a SISSY? (1956)

Superb piece by someone who knows KGB/FSB officers really well - and from there extrapolates convincingly about what will and what won’t deter Putin from going nuclear. justsecurity.org/83605/addressi…

"In Flow of Words" - a documentary about the power of words, testimonies, emotions, and trauma #interpreters go through while #translating at #warcrime trials. Awarded recently at the Netherlands Film Festival and now available via The New Yorker newyorker.com/culture/the-ne…

What's next? #Article4

The irony of following Twitter's chaos on Twitter

Take a look at the recent @atc_translation report with more details about the language industry in the UK. atc.org.uk/language-skill…

It's time for Africa

Soccer legends, Arab viewers and the man in the middle by tariq panja. Via The New York Times nytimes.com/2022/12/12/spo…

Highly entertaining piece on Elon's shambolic reign of terror over Twitter. The "Elon net worth-o-meter" on the side that constantly declines as you read is the chef's kiss. theverge.com/23551060/elon-…

Researchers at the University of Tartu have added Livonian, Komi, Veps and 14 other low-resource #Finnougric languages to machine translation engine. Most of these languages are added to a public translation engine for the first time! #MT cs.ut.ee/en/content/uni…

What's up with that doge?

From who else but Noam Chomsky, the long awaited article about ChatGPT. nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opi…

How your email finds me

I definitely made this same logo in Photoshop back in 2008

Some high-quality research into the frequency of compound pejoratives used on Reddit colinmorris.github.io/blog/compound-…

Manhattan's hidden etymologies