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Metaglossia took note, principally, of three female figures who stole the show last year in translation, at least on (social and mass) media outlets in English and French as international languages: writers Amanda Gorman and Sally Rooney, on the one hand, and podcast host Youngmi Mayer, on the other. [...]

We woke up this morning with a surprise message for our attention on the Metaglossia portal @ scoop.it: “You are a giant among curators. Congratulations on leveling The World of Indigenous Languages up to Gold!” The message was delivered at 12:11 AM and should be no mean feat for amateur curators. [...]

Dear brothers and sisters in translation/interpreting/intercultural communication, TRUE STORY: You live(d) in Cameroon and have a relatively sound knowledge of Cameroon politics. You [...]

“A good example of how this works is when you snap or capture an image of a flower or plant whose name you [...]

There is a strong correlation between endogenous language loss/shift and loss/shift of the full range of related cultural development resources…, both material and immaterial… In the process, there tends to be an unfortunate and servile shift towards exogenous-language-rooted development resources with little or no bearing on local reality in most cases… [...]

Simple coïncidence ? Évolution logique ? L’usage va-t-il suivre la voie de l’intervention lexicographique ? Quelle serait la portée réelle de ces nouveaux pronoms sur le discours ? Quid des autres « langues genrées » dont il est question ci-dessus, et des autres variétés du français à travers le monde ? Quelle serait l’implication d’une telle « évolution pronominale » en traduction du français ou vers le français ? [...]