Malena Duchovny
Malena Duchovny is a published writer and terminologist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a source terminologist for Akorbi.
How LSPs Can Contribute to Language Conservation
“If we don’t do this, we don’t have integrity,” Ke’alohi Reppun, a specialist of Hawaiian language and culture, said to her team of linguists. But not before she said the same thing to herself.
Two years ago, she started to get email after email asking her to translate English texts into Hawaiian. The trickle soon became a flood, and she realized why: The government had finally started to enforce the requirement that healthcare documentation be available both in English and Hawaiian.