When officers arrived at the scene of a violent confrontation and questioned a bystander, they relied on a free machine translation tool to communicate with him. MultiLingual spoke with Utrilla last week to learn more about the case and how his testimony on speech technology and MT factored into the bystander’s eventual acquittal.
Fact is, in the 20th century, the most influential linguists decided that writing was so secondary to spoken language that the two were barely...
Stefan Huyghe and Marjolein Groot Nibbelink unpack the influence of Dutch on English, language evolution, and the shift in writing education in the US.
We joke about the preponderance of jargon in the financial services industry, yet each term, description, and acronym carries meaning that may be codified...