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Intolerance has many triggers and takes many forms, but it tends to boil down to in-group and out-group status. Most people favor “people like us.” (Whereas tolerance springs…
Few U.S. presidents have spoken foreign languages, and the current crop of candidates does not offer great hope of improving matters. But there are a few aspiring commanders-in-chief…
Michelle Tsai discusses the lineages of a few obscenities at Slate. Related: Jon Carroll, “This Is a Column about Obscenity …”
When I saw that the anchor text for a link on Ron Silliman’s blog was “a review of the most pompous translator of our time” I had a…
Acouple of days ago I completed proofreading first pages of New World / New Words: Recent Writing from the Americas, A Bilingual Anthology, the first volume in a…
It must be the desk that ups the price. This “writhing desk” recalls Harry Potter, or maybe Lewis Carroll:”The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to…
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No, despite the title this is not another post about the Bush administration. It’s a link to an interesting video demonstrating how editing can manipulate viewers’ impressions of…
What is there to say about this curious story?
This project (which I did as a volunteer, to support the mission of the Center for the Art of Translation) has really been moving at a snail’s pace….
“What is there left when voices rise in debate without chairman or standing orders? You have babble….”