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
BBC News (World)
The many languages missing from the internet
7 min · · English and a handful of other languages dominate the internet, but this is leaving indigenous cultures without a voice online. Now they are fighting back. · Shared by 47, including Josep M. Ganyet, Nicolas Dengler, Nige Roberts-Willson, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Asifa Majid, Neil Hart 💙
Aeon+Psyche
Why language might be the optimal self-regulating system
14+ min · · Bound by rules, yet constantly changing, language might be the ultimate self-regulating system, with nobody in charge · Shared by 45, including Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Mathew Ingram, Anita Leirfall, Daniel Dennett, Alex Barrera
felixjamestin.com
the secret behind great copywriting
3 min · · all great copywriting share a few underlying patterns. here's the secret ingredient to making your copy more persuasive and memorable. · Shared by 44, including Atul Pradhananga, Victor Tolosa, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator
Harvard Business Review
Bad Writing Is Destroying Your Company’s Productivity
5 min · · It wastes everyone’s time. · Shared by 43, including Mark Kaigwa, Francis Wade at JumpLeap, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Klaus Eck, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Roger Friedensen, Tom Connor
BBC News (World)
The huge benefits of working in your second language
Summary · 9 min · · In today’s globalized work world, speaking a second language can give you a leg up: Being multilingual can multiply job opportunities and expand the scope of your work. But working in a nonnative tongue can also feel clumsy and inefficient. Writing for BBC Capital, Bogotá-based journalist José Luis Peñarredonda reveals some unexpected advantages of working in a nonnative language – including benefits in analytical thinking and negotiating. getAbstract recommends this encouraging exploration to anyone who’s struggling in a second language. · Shared by 39, including ron boger, getAbstract, 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
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 Economist’s 1843 magazine
Do you speak corona? A guide to covid-19 slang
11+ min · · Around the world, coronavirus is changing how we speak. Don’t be a “covidiot” - make sure your pandemic parlance is up to scratch · Shared by 32, including Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Matthew Bishop, Roger Highfield, Mark Kaigwa, Miguel Angel Escotet
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
World Economic Forum
Being bilingual can help you make better decisions
4 min · · Why is it often so much easier to vent frustration in a language that is not your native one? · Shared by 32, including Ward Plunet, Thomas Power, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Antonio Vieira Santos
youtube.com
Former FBI Agent Explains How to Read Body Language
· Former FBI agent and body language expert Joe Navarro breaks down the various ways we communicate non-verbally. What does it mean when we fold our arms? Why ... · Shared by 30, including Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, osioke.eth, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator
The New York Times
Amazon’s Plan to Reach 500 Million Indians: Speak Their Language
6 min · · As the online retailer looked at India, its top new market, it realized it needed to reach beyond the relatively small, urban English-speaking population. · Shared by 30, including Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator
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
Brain Pickings
How to Write with Style: Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Keys to the Power of the Written Word
6 min · · “The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.” · Shared by 27, including Tillmann Allmer, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷
Merriam-Webster
The Words in Your Neighborhood
· A beautiful day for a vocab list · Shared by 24, including Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Schweizerdeutsch: Viel Wandel im Freiburger Dialekt, kaum in Baar
13+ min · · Bei den Jungen vermischten sich die Dialekte, heisst es. Verstehen Schweizer Kinder ihre Grosseltern bald nicht mehr? In Freiburg ist das teilweise der Fall, in Baar hingegen hat sich die Sprache kaum verändert. Eine Spurensuche. · Shared by 24, including Marie-José Kolly, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, NZZ Editorial Tech, Peter Hogenkamp