Science Magazine: No shengren, please!
Thorsten Pattberg 裴德思
US Science Magazine excludes Chinese terminologies from its publications.
If the shengren isn’t science, what in China is?
The shengren is the single most important concept in the Chinese tradition. Yet, ‘Science’ magazine “ ...
The end of translation: Why the West shuts out subtle Chinese concepts
Thorsten Pattberg 裴德思
BEIJING - SEPTEMBER 28 marks the 2563rd anniversary of the birth of Confucius. Few people realize that, quite frankly, the Bible discourages people from studying foreign languages. The story ...
Claude Hagège: "Imposing ones language imposes ones way of thinking"
Michel Feltin-Palas
Should we worry about the English language's dominant position? Will national languages disappear? Avoiding chauvinism or cheap shots, the linguist Claude Hagège puts the situation in relief. Discussion.
The Week of the French ...
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On Translating Securityspeak into English
- Kevin Carson
One might wonder, reading the American “national security” community’s pronouncements, ...
New word: Grexit - What does it mean?
- DeTraci Regula
Definition: If you haven't seen this word before, you're not alone. It's a newly-coined term created ...
From Napoleon III to Franco: the “Reds,” “Moors of the north”
- Fausto Giudice فاوستو جيوديشي
Reading the excellent article by John Brown “Baltasar Garzón and the Trap of Spain’ ...
The expression "GI" and the movement within the U.S. military during the war against Vietnam
- John Catalinotto
The following article was inspired by a discussion among Tlaxcala translators about the meaning of the ...
Singing Revolution: Libyan protest slogans
- Wikipedia
The 2011 Libyan uprising began as a series of protests and confrontations occurring in the North ...
Word stories: banker + gangster = bankster
- Harold Evans
It seems timely to resurrect this Americanism from the 1930s - one of many evocative words the ...
The American God of Words
- Manuel Talens
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God ...
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