Language and Translation
Articles on language, translation and writing collected by Mariella Petrigni, Translator from English and German to Italian, www.mptranslations.it
Collection by Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator
The Guardian
The joys and benefits of bilingualism
13+ min · · More than half the world’s population is now bilingual. Now thought to encourage flexibility of mind and empathy, bilingualism is also transforming societies · Shared by 33, including Carl Morris, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator
The Guardian
To Brits with knickers in a twist over Americanisms: don't get your panties in a bunch
4 min · · Many ‘American’ phrases are actually British but a new book argues why we say what we say reveals a lot about our cultures · Shared by 19, including Jane, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Esther Schindler
World Economic Forum
The trouble with speaking English as a second language
4 min · · Speakers of English as a second or third language can have different perceptions of the world. · Shared by 19, including Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator
History Today
The Language of the Roman Empire
13+ min · · Latin was used throughout the Roman Empire, but it shared space with a host of other languages and dialects, including Greek, Oscan and Etruscan, which give us a unique perspective on the ancient world. · Shared by 18, including Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Serge K. Keller ❦
BBC Future
BBC - Future - Can you lose your native language?
8 min · · It’s possible to forget your first language, even as an adult. But how, and why, this happens is complex and counter-intuitive.
· Shared by 20, including Grammar Girl is also @grammargirl@zirk.us, Jane, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator
The Atlantic
Did Toolmaking Pave the Road for Human Language?
6 min · · A provocative theory argues that the same cerebral pathways used for toolmaking allowed language to flourish. · Shared by 346, including Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Grammar Girl is also @grammargirl@zirk.us, Stephen C Sanders, Jane
The New York Times
Maori Language, Once Shunned, Is Having a Renaissance in New Zealand
5 min · · Indigenous people are increasingly embracing their language while New Zealanders of European descent are looking to Maori language and culture to help make sense of their own identity. · Shared by 22, including Esther Schindler, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Jane
Atlas Obscura
How the English Failed to Stamp Out the Scots Language
11+ min · · Against all odds, 28 percent of Scottish people still use it. · Shared by 18, including Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator
World Economic Forum
These 15 languages are close to extinction
4 min · · With more than 7,000 languages in the world, over half are at risk of going extinct. · Shared by 17, including Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Mahantesh Biradar, Antonio Vieira Santos
TNW
Researchers are using AI to save indigenous languages from extinction
3 min · · 43 percent of all spoken languages in the world are endangered and every 14 days another language dies. That’s the harsh reality, and the furious pace of digitalization is certainly not helping, seeing that approximately half of all online content is stored in English and Chinese. · Shared by 14, including Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator
World Economic Forum
Chart of the day: The internet has a language diversity problem
2 min · · English dominates the internet and risks creating a digital divide, as demonstrated by this chart showing the discrepancies between languages used online and those spoken in real life. · Shared by 17, including Ian M Calvert, Loubna Rais, Christopher Lauer™, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Martina Bürge, luis antónio santos
The Guardian
Oxford English Dictionary adds new entries: chuddies, jibbons and fantoosh
2 min · · An Indian English word for underpants joins a host of Scottish insults after the dictionary crowdsourced regional terms · Shared by 28, including Lukas Stickelberger, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator
Aeon+Psyche
The link between language and cognition is a red herring
6 min · · Scientists working on animal cognition often dwell on their desire to talk to the animals. Oddly enough, this particular desire must have passed me by, because I have never felt it. I am not waiting to hear what my animals have to say about themse... · Shared by 37, including Liv 😷, okimiko, @AlgoCompSynth@ravenation.club by znmeb, Brian, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator
World Economic Forum
How you talk to your child changes their brain
4 min · · A simple change in the way you communicate can boost your child's cognitive development.
· Shared by 21, including Dr. SunWolf, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator
Pew Research Fact Tank
Most European students are learning a foreign language in school while Americans lag
3 min · · A median of 92% of European students are learning a language in school. Far fewer K-12 students in the U.S. participate in foreign language education. · Shared by 32, including Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Jeremy Caplan, Dominic Grzbielok, Antonio Vieira Santos
The Atlantic
The Problem With ‘Hey Guys’
8 min · · A broad coalition of English speakers—teachers, retail workers, ice-cream scoopers, and plenty of others—is grasping for a more inclusive greeting. · Shared by 156, including Esther Schindler, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Carl Morris, Marsha Collier, Scott Williams, hiten.eth, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator