Languages of the world are full of interesting linguistic phenomena that make people’s speech more colourful, and give linguists a lot of material to study. They make learning foreign languages a little harder, but also a lot more interesting! One-word oxymorons are...
Quirky languages of the world! The average person may only ever think about a few of the languages that exist in this world. But language is infinitely diverse, ever-changing, and beautifully quirky. Consider, the Ancient Egyptians developed their own writing system,...
Idiocracy appeared as a ‘new’ word in 2006, when Mike Judge and Ethan Cohen released a movie of the same title. The movie tells the story of an “ordinary Joe” who wakes up 500 years from now, to discover the world is ruled by idiots. Some might say, this is not...
Paraprosdokians, because we all love a twist! Languages are not only about grammar, rules, and rigid structures; they also allow for a lot of creativity, even some craziness, and a lot of fun. English, of course, is no exception. In the English language, there...
Are you up on Coronavirus Terminology? In recent weeks, on traditional and social media, there has been an avalanche of news and information about the coronavirus. We've heard the opinions of experts (and not so experts) in epidemiology, medicine, economics and...
The beauty of Semantic Nonsense "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book, Syntactic Structures. He sought to give an example of a sentence that is grammatically correct, but semantically, it's nonsense. The...
What are technical glossaries and termbases? Glossaries are simple lists, or larger databases, containing words (terminology) preferred by each client. In other words, a list of words in a spreadsheet. Typically, preferred translations appear in the next column. Some...
New scientific research determines that the Human Language Pathway is 25 million years old Until now, scientists believed that the earliest origins of our language pathway emerged around five million years ago. Passed down to us from a common ancestor of both...
According to the World Health Organization, vaccination is one of the most effective ways to prevent diseases. Vaccines help our immune systems fight various viruses and pathogens. They protect humanity from life-threatening and crippling diseases, such...
How can I reduce translation costs? The question of how to reduce translation costs is relevant all businesses, not just to multinationals. Especially since Machine Translation appears to offer a viable, cheaper alternative to traditional methods of translation and...