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Titivillus is a medieval demon who inspired the phrase "the devil is in the details," and has been blamed for writing mistakes and typos.

More than a century after colonisation, the Ainu language almost vanished. Now machines are listening to hours of old recordings and learning to give it a new voice.

Naomi Cohn, Darien Gee, and Tom McAllister discuss methods that have helped them overcome writer’s block

“My Phone Is the Supermoon,” flash fiction by Nathan Alling Long

These books do their very best to break the rules of storytelling

The trend explores how racism and the model minority myth flatten Asians and Asian Americans

Being bilingual is a wonderful thing. Studies show that it has numerous advantages. Everything from increasing certain cognitive functions to giving you a leg up in the professional world. Not to mention it gave us the fantastic Spanglish!   Although we’re a bit behind on learning languages in places like the U.S. and the U.K., the number of biling...

“Blue” from THE FATE OF OTHERS by Richard Bausch, recommended by Jennifer Haigh

These poets show that sometimes the best verse takes time to unfold

Step aside, post-apocalypse. These books ring the alarm bells for an apocalypse yet to come

These authors don't shy away from the messy and brutal parts of the business

What happens when ambition and talent go awry?

In the midst of brutal times, these books remind us that the opposite of force isn’t weakness, but beauty

If your book is on this list, watch out for these common pitfalls

Through poetry, prose, and myth, these authors attend to the lacunae in humanity’s past

For these experimental authors, flesh is just another boundary to break

To understand a society, consider how it records its knowledge

New linguistic findings show that the European Huns had Paleo-Siberian ancestors and do not, as previously assumed, originate from Turkic-speaking groups. The joint study was conducted by Dr. Svenja Bonmann at the University of Cologne's Department of Linguistics and Dr. Simon Fries at the Faculty of Classics and the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford.

A late discovery and an excuse to preview Martha Barnette's new book about language.

In a previous post, I outlined some of the various types of services that various translation buyers might be looking for, including transcreation. Earlier this week, I shared an article about tran…

Given the growing number of people who turn to ChatGPT when studying a foreign language, pioneering research by UPF reveals the potential and the shortcomings of learning a second language in this way.

A 2023 YouGov poll found that only 21% of UK adults can hold a conversation in a language other than their mother tongue. About half of the other 79% regretted not engaging more with languages at school, and more than half of all those polled were interested in learning a new language.

In his guide to productive academic writing the psychologist and writing coach Robert Boice distinguishes between non-starters and non-finishers. Even if there could be some academics who experienc…

AI is transforming every industry, from medicine to film to finance. So, why not use it to study one of the world's most revered ancient texts, the Bible?

Danish associations get legal backing to stop AI translation editors from getting credit as original translators.

Viktoria Yankovskaya (1909-1996) was born in Vladivostok, in the Russian Far East, to the family of famed Machurian tiger hunter and, later, Korean resort owner, Yuri Yankovsky (1879-1956). Like hi…

This revelatory new book will open your eyes to the source of everything you say.

26 May 2025 Tweak is both a verb and a noun with a base meaning of pinch, twist, or pull. From this, it has developed a number of other senses. The word, in the form twick , can be traced back to Old English. (The Oxford English Dictionary says this is only “perhaps,” but to my mind it is as c

Today, May 20, Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi is announced as the winner of the International Booker Prize 2025

Low motives in high places.

Since the recent explosion of widely available generative artificial intelligence (AI), it now seems that a new AI tool emerges every week.