Ich freue mich, der Evolution dabei zu helfen, ihre Ziele zu erreichen.

Wenn ich gebrochenes Deutsch spreche, dann mit Absicht. Ich will die Sprache von innen zerbrechen.

Ich lasse mir ein Passbild machen. Fotografin: Ist das für eine österreichische Behörde? Ich: Ja. Fotografin: Dann bitte nicht lächeln.

Our research group at Uni Vienna is launching Translation Technology Talks, a series of workshops about, you guessed it, translation tech: haitrans.univie.ac.at/news-events/ I have the honour to be kicking it off with a workshop on gender bias in machine translation this Thursday, 2 July.

My new employer has decided to wheel me out in public. Let’s hope I don’t make them regret it. Register here (places are limited to 25 participants): www.termino.gv.at/meet/b/ad3df...

Is maith an rud é nach ag cur sneachta atá sé. B'fhuath liom bheith ag glanadh sneachta sa teas seo!

Mise i Lár na hEorpa ag éisteacht le mo chairde in Éirinn ag gearán faoin “tonn teasa” acu.

I thought the idea behind skeuomorphism was that it didn’t need an explanation but here we are.

I loved this slide from Antonio Toral’s keynote at #EAMT2026. What if translations came with labels like these to tell you how much a human linguist has been in the loop?

We will, we will, rewrite you.

I’ve been reviewing papers for @gitt-workshop.bsky.social since it started but I never got a chance to actually attend. So, today is my first time here and I‘m bringing a poster about Fairslator, a tool for detecting and removing bias in machine translation. www.fairslator.com

Táimid ag earcú / We are hiring! Fáiltítear roimh iarratais ar phost an Chúntóir Corpais le Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge (FNG), atá lonnaithe in Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann. Dáta deiridh: 15:00 ar an 29 Meitheamh 2026 Chun tuilleadh eolais a fháil tabhair cuairt ar: www.ria.ie/about/career...

Rachaidh sé in olcas sula rachaidh sé i bhfeabhas.

This book has love written all over it. magaz.global/product/dima...

Nuair a bhí Sigmund Freud fostaithe in Ollscoil Vín, deirtear go mbíodh an ghráid aige ar an teagasc, agus go ndearna sé margadh leis an ollscoil gur maidin Dhomhnaigh a bheadh a chuid léachtaí á dtabhairt aige, sa dóigh nach dtiocfadh ach fíorbheagán de na mic léinn. Mo laoch é!

I ngan fhios don Algartam is fearr a bheith ann.

1998 just felt right

This literally couldn't be easier.

Ó tháinig na róbait tá gach lá ina lá cogaidh. #madmax

“Schatz, wie war dein Deutschkurs heute?”

“Cad a d'fhoghlaim tú i do rang Gaeilge inniu a thaisce?”

Of course we should have machine translation for every language, right?

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"A fish that forgets is on-brand." github.com/arman-bd/gup...

When I was a child my mother bought a hostess trolley. It looked insane in our cramped little house. But she'd spent the cash and insisted we use it all the time, bumping and scratching as we went. It was, in every way, a worse experience than just carrying stuff yourself. This is a post about AI.

d1og0s8nlbd0hm.cloudfront.net/wp-content/u... TG4 ag cuardach Comhairleoirí Teanga - seans go mbeadh spéis ag cuid agaibh!

What everything reminds you of Czechoslovakia...

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

Absolutely this: "I’ve learned that when you coin a new term, the definition is not what you give it. It’s what people assume it means when they hear it." @simonwillison.net (simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/14/...)

In Czech we don't say "I'm self-employed" we say "I'm free-legged" and I think that's beautiful. Or weird.

Me in Ireland: You can't make me say Dia dhuit as a greeting, what am I, some kind of religious fanatic? Me in Austria: Grüss Gott! Gott sei Dank! Um Gottes Willen!

They: Guten Morgen, wie geht's? You:

By the you finish trying to pronounce Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum it is already überschritten.

badreads buff.ly/LVl4M2j books you truly regret reading complete with TL;DRs (too long don't read) <- I *like* this. We need more of stuff like this.

Most PhD theses do nothing but gather dust in a university library somewhere. I don’t want that to happen to mine, so I’ve started grave-robbing chapters from it and giving them a new life as blog posts. Here’s one, more will follow.

Mein Lieblingswein ist Bier.

Ní thuigeann daoine óga inniu an t-iontas a chuireann sé ar ár n-aoisghrúpa gur féidir trasnú ó Bheirlín Thoir go Beirlín Thiar anois, gan tollán a thochailt ná dul i bhfolach i mbúit an ghluaisteáin.

Some AI chatbots can now ask follow-up questions by giving you a form to fill. It's a great idea, I'm going to start doing that to people.

Which one is Thursday again?

I have made what I hope is an improvement to the autoplay feature on Native Dialogs. When the autoplay checkbox is checked, it now plays the sound for *both* sides of the conversation as you make your way down the roleplay. Is that better? www.nativedialogs.com

It is not the case that all Russians support the war, and it is certainly not the case that those who do still would if they had some proper journalism in the country. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZzs...

They come in peace.

“Tá na Gardaí ag iarraidh cúnamh ar an bpobal ainm a chur ar an bhfear a bhfuil tatú de bhratach ghorm agus bhán ar a sciathán deas aige a bhfuil an mana 'Ceol is Beatha' scríofa uirthi.” Probably drochaistriúchán ar ’Music is Life’, ag cur san áireamh cén sort duine atá ann.

The error page is so beautifully multilingual that I’m not even mad the website is down.

📢Gairm ar pháipeir: Logainmneacha agus an Éiceolaíocht sa Chomhthéacs Eorpach📢 Ceardlann @logainm.bsky.social, Déardaoin 23 Iúil in @fsg-dcu.bsky.social. www.dcu.ie/fiontarscoil...

Here’s a listicle I wrote years ago. Everything in it is still true. Of course it is, languages don’t change that quickly.

I always know what to say when I don't know what to say. And you?

Avoiding the male default in translated texts is not really that difficult – if you’re using Fairslator. www.fairslator.com

After webshits wreck everything, apptards come in and make the rubble bounce. UI design has steadily deteriorated since the browser was invented.

While Rome falls, all that the Barbarians want is to speak like native Romans.