"#Translators are [...] required to [...] sign up to the idea that invisibility is hard-wired into their value, and that a truly great translation is the one that the reader fails to notice". In @jencalleja.bsky.social's"Fair" (pub. by @prototypepubs.bsky.social ) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

🥯 'Schmaltz', 'glitch' ... here are some of the more well-known #Yiddish words to have entered the English #language merriam-webster.com/wordplay/eng... via @merriamwebster6.bsky.social

🌍 I’m honoured that @wlvuni.bsky.social chose to share my story in their alumni magazine. ✨ It highlights the importance of #languages & #translation, of being open to the world, and reminds us that one opportunity can transform an entire life. 👉 Read it here: www.wlv.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

🗣 What do Kim Kardashian and James Bond have in common? The Economist #language correspondent @lanegreene.bsky.social explores the controversy behind their creaky vocal quality youtube.com/shorts/XXYYQ...

🌎 Today, September 15, marks the start of National Hispanic American Heritage Month www.hispanicheritagemonth.gov (H/T @becauselanguage.com)

🍎 Neck of the woods, by the skin of (one’s) teeth & apple of (someone’s) eye: exploring the obscure side of body-related expressions antidote.info/en/blog/repo...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The 2025 Edinburgh International Book Festival: Literature of Repair asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09... (see also my LinkedIn post: tinyurl.com/4s5hjyz8)

🕵️ @michaelidov.bsky.social on being culturally accurate with foreign protagonists' names when writing fiction nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o... via @nytimes.com

📆 Today is United Nations International Literacy Day. This year's theme is “Promoting literacy in the digital era" www.unesco.org/en/days/lite... #LiteracyDay #ILD 🎉 And a on a different note, it's also Ampersand Day! (H/T @becauselanguage.com) www.checkiday.com/8f43a7dbd7b4...

🧐 How different are #Spanish dialects around the world? blog.duolingo.com/spanish-dial... via @duolingoverde.bsky.social

🌈 The people who 'see' foreign #languages: How synaesthesia (seeing in colour) can help learning a new #language bbc.co.uk/future/artic... by @kathla.bsky.social

🤖 "What AI can do is not yet a threat to human #translators and human readers of sophisticated, textured human writing. The threat is what some people think it can do" writes Daniel Hahn observer.co.uk/news/opinion... via @observeruk.bsky.social

🤖 Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as #translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. #Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories (feat. @locdandloaded.net) bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-... by @bcmerchant.bsky.social

🇺🇸🇬🇧 What are the most American and British words? Is American English really that different than its British ancestor? And if so, what words truly separate the American from the Brit? washingtonpost.com/business/202... by @andrewvandam.bsky.social via @washingtonpost.com

🤖 There is still a long way to go until the promised benefits of AI are enjoyed by all, no matter the type or variety of language they speak, as it doesn’t get sarcasm in non-American varieties of English theconversation.com/are-you-joki... by @aadi-joshi.bsky.social via @aunz.theconversation.com

☀️ The August language lowdown: from language activism to new words and surprising stories that shaped English, here are the month's most popular stories, articles, and blog posts about #language and #translation wp.me/p2brSS-1hK

🇨🇦 A haven for English in Quebec City, the most #French of North American cities nytimes.com/2025/08/11/w... via @nytimes.com

🤓 From my blog archives: #Translators, are you guilty of nerd view? asmarttranslatorsreunion.wordpress.com/2020/09/15/t...

💡 Examining the ties between #language and emotion news.ku.edu/news/article... by @brendanmlynch.bsky.social via @universityofkansas.bsky.social

🚺 Women in #translation: 5 voices redefining global literature indianexpress.com/article/book... via @indianexpress.com

😆 What makes the world laugh? Embassies from various countries share their favourite national jokes for Edinburgh Fringe Festival babbel.com/en/magazine/...

The #language activist who turned #mistranslations into her mission after witnessing FGM mistranslated as "purification" at a UN conference www.news24.com/citypress/ne...

🇬🇧 Over centuries, Britons have been divided over just what to call a bread roll. The patchwork of alternative names say much about its history and how the English #language evolved bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

🇺🇸🇬🇧 Post no bills or No fly-posting? No dumping or No fly-tipping? @lynneguist.bsky.social looks at UK vs US differences separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2025/08/fly-...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The answer to whether Scots is a #language or a dialect is not as cut and dried as it may first appear noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca/en/blogue-bl...

🐮 A Dutch #linguist has become fascinated with how cows communicate. But can this really be called '#language'? bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

💡A lot of these (nostalgic?) advantages of life as a copy editor can be applied to life as a #translator too! johnemcintyre.blogspot.com/2025/06/adva... by @johnemcintyre.bsky.social

🆗 A new book argues the long despised word "like" is now essential to the way we communicate www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... via @theguardian.com

📈 From plague to prestige: How the Black Death empowered the English #language ciol.org.uk/plague-prest... via @ciol-linguists.bsky.social

🇮🇳 Humour: when you don't speak the (right) #language youtu.be/XAEeucAVMwg

📕 😂 👍🏻 How #emoji became an inextricable part of our culture, and even our unconscious minds slate.com/culture/2025... via @slate.com

Humour: Tautological Tat tinyview.com/itchy-feet/2... by @itchyfeetcomic.bsky.social

English’s feminine spin languagemagazine.com/2025/07/28/e... by @petersokolowski.bsky.social

📚 5 books that change how we understand the #translation industry multilingual.com/translation-...

📖 Cultivating relationships with the words we use: don’t throw your dictionary away just yet nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o... via @nytimes.com

🤿 Today is International Diving Day. Here's the #translation of "Scuba Diving" in 27 different #languages (+ some translations of scuba diving gear & some fun marine life literal translations) blog.padi.com/scuba-diving...

🇨🇳 Shamraderie? “Comrade” is making a comeback in China. Or so the government hopes economist.com/china/2025/0... via @economist.com

🆕 How TikTok is transforming the English #language lithub.com/algorithm-on... by @etymologynerd.bsky.social

🎈Holiday slowdown? Not for language news – here's your July round-up wp.me/p2brSS-1hp

🎞️ "Clueless" turns 30: How the ’90s classic movie changed the way we speak babbel.com/en/magazine/... via @babbel-app.bsky.social

🇩🇰 Denmark is fighting #AI by giving citizens copyright to their own faces vice.com/en/article/d... by @luisprada.bsky.social

🇮🇳 Meta apologises after auto-translated post declares India minister 'dead' www.bbc.com/news/article...

🤖 As chatbots get smarter, are humans’ unique #language abilities becoming less special? universityofcalifornia.edu/news/chatbot... via @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

🔤 The Harvard-educated #linguist @etymology.substack.com.web.brid.gy (whose infographics I've often shared online) argues in a new book that algorithms are reshaping the English #language nytimes.com/2025/07/12/s... via @nytimes.com

🔠 The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell theguardian.com/education/20... by @emmaloffhagen.bsky.social via @theguardian.com

🇷🇪 I think #ReunionIsland's National Park needs glasses not lenses! ("Lenses" is an automatic #translation of "lentils") www.facebook.com/groups/55648...

🤖 How #language gaps constrain generative AI development brookings.edu/articles/how... by @drturnerlee.bsky.social via @brookings.edu

🇱🇷 Trump praises the English skills of #Liberian president Joseph Boakai – a country where English is the official #language 🤦‍♀️ www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

🧠 "Studies of #interpreters & #translators have provided some of the strongest evidence for a #bilingual advantage" economist.com/science-and-... via @economist.com

👩‍❤️‍👨 Using #emojis in text messages enhances connection and fun in close personal relationships, US study finds www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...