Localizing team spirit and other impossibilities
Rugby is not that popular in America, the land of college sports. Like soccer, it’s sort of relegated to the shadows, played by club...
A love story
Jost Zetzsche introduces us to characters he loves.
And, I am not talking about human characters. Jost Zetzsche of International Writers Group fame has a...
Mapping endangered languages
UNESCO has released a new “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger”.
Following the end of the International Year of Languages (2008) and International Mother...
“The Linguists” chronicles the search for endangered languages
Film captures two ethnographers circling the world to record endangered languages.
The film The Linguists, which was shown at Sundance, will be aired on public...
A sweet goodbye to the Year of Languages
UNESCO’s International Year of Languages (2008) comes to a close with International Mother Language Day on February 21, 2009. The Orphan’s Lullaby project, a...
Learning Yakama Sahaptin is cool
Columbia River language taught by native speaker at University of Oregon.
I don’t know what about this story from Spokane, Washington’s Spokesman Review I love...
The non-localizable language
Watching a documentary on the practice of rumspringa (“running around,” sometimes also referring to the whole period of adolescence), when 16-year-old Amish kids release...
Crowdsourced translation via cell phone
”...distributing questions to participants in such developing countries via text messages or audio clips could make certain tasks more economical, such as the translation...
A little language irony
Multilingual signs in Malaysia spark suit. Suit is rejected: no locus standi
According to the Sun2Surf website (a pause here for a sigh from all...