Michael R. Katz on Creating the First New Translation of Dostoevsky’s Novel in Two Decades
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OPINION: The Newest Immigrants Will Change American Spanish. That’s a Good Thing.
Latinx? Latino? Hispanic? A linguistics expert explains the confusion
One poll shows only 4% of U.S. Latinos use the non-binary term, Latinx.
By Victoria Moll-Ramirez, Cecily Cruz, Penelope Lopez, and Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News
Read moreUkrainians’ Russian Curses Are Like Verbal Molotov Cocktails
Russia’s invading troops must listen to people exactly like them swearing at them in their language as the worst kind of uninvited guests.
Opinion: By Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
Read moreCovid-19 expands translators’ role in saving lives, academics say
By Haya Alhusayni, Saudi Gazette
RIYADH — For more than a year now, the world has been and is still affected and fighting the COVID-19 pandemic that crossed borders and reshaped the lives of peoples around the globe. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020.
In light of this new pandemic and the emergence of new variants that pose an increased risk to the global public health, economic sector, among others, translation and interpretation services have become in high demand and a key to saving lives.
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