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AP Spanish students are no substitute for professional interpreters
When a group of Advanced Placement (AP) Spanish students in Martha’s Vineyard stepped in to act as impromptu interpreters for non-English-speaking migrants last week,...
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Squid Game wins Emmys for best actor, director
Monday was another big night for international entertainment with an Emmy win for Lee Jung-jae and Hwang Dong-hyuk of Squid Game.
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Al Arabiya interpreter goes viral for questionable error in King Charles III speech
An interpreter working for the Dubai-based news channel Al Arabiya likely learned that lesson this past week after accidentally leading an audience to believe...
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Postediting | September 2022
This month's issue highlights Faiza Sultan, who arrived as a refugee in the US and used her skills as a linguist to open her...
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The Missing Language Syllabus | The Red List | September 2022
Fact is, in the 20th century, the most influential linguists decided that writing was so secondary to spoken language that the two were barely...
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What's in a name? | Everything and nothing, all at once | September 2022
Asking the entire world to start calling Turkey “Türkiye” without a really convincing justification is sort of akin to asking a group of 40...