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.

If there are few speakers left of a language, how does a community revive it? In our current era, 3,000 languages are at risk of extinction due to the pressures of colonization, globalization, forced cultural assimilation, environmental devastation and other factors.

Welcome to the latest installment of “Five Words From …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! In this installment, Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist explains Spotify's influence on the modern music business, and how it's reshaped the experience of both listening to

The AI revolution, which has begun to transform our lives over the past three years, is built on a fundamental linguistic principle that lies at the base of large language models such as ChatGPT. Words in a natural language are not strung together in random patterns; rather, there is a statistical structure that allows the model to guess the next word based on what came before. Yet these models overlook a crucial dimension of human communication: content that is not conveyed by words.

A new SHRM report reveals which jobs are most at risk from automation—technical writers aren't on that list — yet

New slang, a new color, Musk mockery, AI-nal logos, and more.

The food, the brands, the slang, the sport.

Four months in, what does the lexi-scape look like?

AI researchers are using techniques inspired by neuroscience to study how language models work — and to reveal how perplexing they can be.

We insist that large language models repeatedly translate their mathematical processes into words. There may be a better way.

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One of the first executive orders that President Trump signed after his inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025, was titled Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship. The order accused the previous administration of having "trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans' speech on online platforms."

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Amost 3000 pages on the origins, history, evolution and idiosyncrasies of the English language worldwide.

Humans are known to make mental associations between various real-world stimuli and concepts, including colors. For example, red and orange are typically associated with words such as "hot" or "warm," blue with "cool" or "cold," and white with "clean."

The following is a guest post by Edgar Allen Poe. Poe completed many works of both fiction and nonfiction in his life, including ‘The Raven’, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, ‘Eureka’, and most famously, the ‘Tell-Tale Heart’. Many are unaware that one of Poe’s first jobs was as a technical writer. In this post, he explains some deep conflicts and challenges he had on one project, and how he overcame the challenges.