13.09.2020 – Global Voices Online Languages reflect a divided society In the coming months, Global Voices will explore non-binary language initiatives, initially known as “inclusive language”. This first collective story begins with an exploration of gender in Romance languages. Language can be seen as a form of magic that impacts the world. What we say and how we …
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Photography by Ahmed Eckhard Krausen With his book Mosques: Islamic Architecture in Europe, published by Dar Al-Arqam Foundation (Warsaw, Poland), in both English and Polish, Ahmed Eckhard Krausen opened and made accessible a chapter of European history that most of us, European Muslims and Europeans of other faiths alike, are completely unaware of. Although Krausen …
Anappara, Bhaskar, Zaidi, and Majumdar also happen to be debut writers selected for the longlist this year. By PTI Having authored six out of the ten books selected for the JCB Prize for Literature longlist, women writers dominated the list announced on Tuesday. The women writers on the list include Deepa Anappara for “Djinn Patrol on …
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In clinical trial translations, both back translation and reconciliation are an essential part of the linguistic validation process before materials are sent for cognitive debriefing. The reconciliation comes as a second method of improving translation quality of clinical trial texts. The reconciled text is one of the preferred versions of the two previously translated forward …
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By Monalisa Bhattacherjee on September 1, 2020 In the 1950s a theory championed by two linguists, Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf, became popular. The kind of language we use, they argued, influences our worldview and the way we conceptualize reality around us. Adopting this hypothesis, cognitive linguist George Lakoff has presented groundbreaking work, arguing that we live in a metaphorical reality. …
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Do you have one of those houses where books are displayed just perfectly on your coffee table? Lisa Day doesn’t either … but if you did, these will work a day ago By: Lisa Day Do you have one of those houses where books are displayed just perfectly on your coffee table, waiting for a person to …
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Sahil had been suffering from kidney ailments for some years and was admitted to the hospital when his condition worsened on Monday morning. By: PTI | Muzaffarnagar (up) | Published: August 25, 2020 Urdu poet Ashok Sahil passed away at a Meerut hospital on Monday after prolonged illness, a family member said. He was 64. Sahil had been …
Catholic News Service – 24 August 2020 Back in June 2013 an intrepid social media user set up a Twitter account to post lines from Herman Melville’s novel, “Moby-Dick.” Individual lines, one at a time, for seven years now. The lines are posted in no particular order and they are sometimes accompanied by an illustration or a …
With our increased physical distance from each other, novels about forbidden touch and longing are more seductive than ever. Joanna Briscoe 22 May 2020 I n our time of social distancing, the desire for physical contact has never been so intense. And yet we are untouchable. This experience has had its more conspicuous consequences, such …
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By Victoria Stunt and Megan Janetsky 20 April 2020 When Ericka Guadalupe Vásquez Flores began working as a translator for detained migrants and their lawyers in the United States, she could not stop thinking about her younger brother, Bryon. Ms Vásquez spent hours taking long-distance phone calls from her home in the Guatemalan highlands translating …
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