The government of Canada is currently investigating the conditions that led to a particularly bad case of acoustic shock in an interpreter working on Parliament Hill last month.
As the scientific community largely publishes in high-resource languages, languages like Navajo have been left behind, making it hard to translate scientific work adequately.
Since returning home from this season's conferences, I have had time to reflect, and this article contains several common themes I noticed of how...
For Tolkien, language was life, not some lesser academic interest but a cornerstone of human civilization brimming with power and depth.