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Interested in AI and translation and interpreting? Then you definitely need to read the new road map for users and policy makers from the European Language Council, available at tinyurl.com/sprymcx7

Alors que les professeurEs des écoles sont le fondement même de la République bordel et qu'on devrait leur quadrupler le salaire et leur dérouler le tapis rouge à chaque pas

Morning run

Working on my Language Show presentation on translation and dyslexia for Saturday. Neurodiversity inclusion FTW ✊ languageshowlive.co.uk

Reminder: there's just under a week left to register for this online talk next Monday 👇 (in French and LSF)

Sitting on the bus watching a kid copy her homework from chatgpt on her knees while her mate holds the phone 😑

#standingstoneSunday an erratic block with cross-shaped workings, propped upright to commemorate a local quarry worker killed in an accident in the late 19th c

Ma soeur a commencé à lire Une chambre avec vue, classique de la littérature anglaise, qu'elle a eu gratuitement sur la boutique kobo. Je ne pense pas qu'il y ait eu un seul humain impliqué dans cette version. En tout cas, j'espère pas.

If you think what happened to Rosalind Franklin was egregious (which it was), check out the story of Marthe Gautier, who died a couple of years ago at 97 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marthe_...

Petition to stop the closures of the music and MFL courses at Nottingham. It worked for Cardiff, so do sign. c.org/nBXSCSYSfV

any translation publishers out there willing to share how many pitches they receive a year on average?

Morning run

Oh the village bookshelf is tempting today. I will have to come back with a carrier bag (there are 2 stacks)

Source de l'Allondon #ain

Le troc de livres dans mon village c'est vraiment deux salles deux ambiances

Sign the petition to get the UK Home Office to listen to translation experts before they blindly implement automated (AI-based) translation for asylum cases. If the Home Office is serious about protecting human rights, it must listen to those who work with language and law every day.

Prrmière neige sur le Haut Jura (vue de la fenêtre de cuisine)

Lecture du jour. ça décoiffe

Not Copilot offering me a summary of a 5-line email 😒srsly

Mushrooms. Anyone know what the front one is?

Lecture du weekend fraîchement arrivée en rayon @julietjfall.bsky.social

Lecture du weekend fraîchement arrivée enrayon @julietjfall.bsky.social

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step (but in this case, whoever this was gave up on page 5)

Rencontre improbable au château de Voltaire #fêtedelascience

Hey lil buddy

sharp-eyed 18eiste paleographers: any clues on the mid section in this marginal comment? What I have is "Qui vous assure qu'elles aient été polies et arrondies par le roulis des eaux de la mer plutôt qu'*** de ** ** par les fleuves en cailloux roulés?" @traducteurfou.bsky.social any ideas?

Feels like someone is missing from this handy guide to foreign rights, but I can't quite put my finger on it 🤔 #translatorsarepeopletoo

of course. Been waiting for this for a while

Whenever I unplug my computer it plays the first two notes of Steve Reich's Electric counterpoint III: Fast.

never not looking for a reason to post this youtu.be/02Sg9H2T_TQ?...

seen elsewhere on social media this week. I wonder if the lethal English error is the result of unchecked spicy autocomplete. I can't see how the mistake would arise otherwise.

Picture my eleven-year-old son's face when we took him to the Musée Guimet

Now THAT'S what I call a bombastic side eye

Big double take from me

My dad was asked to show RR round the Nairobi museum when he (RR, not my dad) was filming Out of Africa. He had no clue who the guy was. My mum nearly passed out when he came home and told us about this guy he'd been dragged out of the lab to meet.

Just listened to Prof Carol Robinson on Desert Island Discs and I want to give every single male chemist she encountered between 1975 and 2005 a massive kick up the arse

Need to take your mind off things? Come along for my talk next Tuesday with the Association pour la traduction en sciences sociales, atessfrance.org at 1 pm CET, in French. Find out what we have in common with 19th-century translators, and what we can learn from them. Sign up at lnkd.in/e3yyT26M

Everything is shit but our compost heap spontaneously sprouted perfect, delicious mini melons

alerte collector, merci le troc de livres. Ça vous rappelle des souvenirs les ami.e.s?

shout out to this amazing website that is saving my translatorial butt this morning hmmlschool.org

Guess which famous figure from history I am translating today. Go on, guess.

Finish chapter 6 of my industry guide for translators before term starts ✔️

Bonjour l'écrévisse!

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1. quick deepl/human comparison for you. This is from my current project on state sexual violence against Greenlandic women, which is obviously pretty sensitive stuff.

Check out our open-access edited volume on the history of science translation: tinyurl.com/ym4ahm6b

Wow, 19th-c chrysanthemum fanciers really got into it. Fighting talk

Six-fingered mimicry of language is such a great way of putting it