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The Final Boss: Untranslatable Puns

You can conjugate verbs and debate politics, but can you understand a pun in your target language? This article breaks…

6 months ago

Lost in the Supermarket: Brand Name Linguistics

Why did the Chevy Nova supposedly fail in Spanish-speaking markets? This cautionary tale, though likely a myth, highlights the high-stakes…

6 months ago

Shattering Sentences: The Art of Tokenization

Before any AI can understand language, it must first shatter sentences into pieces through a process called tokenization. This crucial…

6 months ago

Speaking to Themselves: The Unsettling Rise of Inter-AI Languages We Can’t Understand

When two AI systems are tasked to work together, they often develop their own optimized, private language to communicate more…

6 months ago

The Billion-Dollar Dialogue: How a Nation’s Language Policy Shapes Its Economy

Beyond culture and identity, a nation's language policy has a powerful, measurable impact on its economy. From Switzerland's multilingual GDP…

6 months ago

Reading Between the Lines: The Art and Science of Subtitling

Subtitling is an unsung art form involving far more than direct translation. It's a delicate dance between art and science,…

6 months ago

Canali on Mars: The 19th-Century Mistranslation That Invented a World

This post explores how Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli's 1877 description of "canali" (channels) on Mars was translated into English as…

6 months ago

Famous Mistranslations: The “Let Them Eat Cake” of the East

Just as the West has its infamous mistranslation of Marie Antoinette's "Let them eat cake", the East too has seen…

2 years ago

The Legend of Malintzin: From Language Mediator to Historical Icon

In the annals of language history, few figures emerge as enigmatic, transformative, and divisive as La Malinche, also known as…

2 years ago

Will AI Translators Make Learning Foreign Languages Obsolete?

In an increasingly interconnected world, the ability to communicate effectively is more critical than ever. With the rise of artificial…

2 years ago

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