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12/19/2024

Silent Letter Day!

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10/12/2024

It explains a lot.

A filmmaker explores the radical change of her once Democratic father to an angry right-wing fanatic after his immersion in talk radio and Fox News. She discovers this to be a powerful phenomenon that has divided families across the nation.

09/24/2024

For nearly 40 years, daring smugglers transported nearly 40,000 Lithuanian-language books into the nation each year when it was forbidden under Russian rule.

06/17/2024

Terms like "butch," "drag," "shade," and "it's giving" all stem from the secret ways q***r folks used to communicate without cis-het folks knowing.

Terms like butch, drag, shade. and it's giving all stem from the secret ways q***r folks used to communicate without cis-het folks knowing.

03/30/2024

Thanks to AI, people may no longer feel the need to learn a second language.

09/11/2023

Outside of English, ChatGPT makes up words, fails logic tests, and can't do basic information retrieval.

09/08/2023

She made the marvels of Cervantes and Gabriel García Márquez available to English readers and championed translation as an art form in its own right.

07/08/2023

See how a translator carries a book from one language to another, line by line.

04/12/2023

God help the translators!

The pernicious spread of garbage language.

03/21/2023

Keep languages and ideas alive!

Today, Lithuania is marking the Book Smugglers’ Day (Knygnešio diena) to commemorate the people who are credited with keeping the Lithuanian language alive during repressive Tsarist policies in the 19th century.

🟢In 1864, publishing books in the Latin alphabet in Lithuania was prohibited. Two years later, publishing books in Lithuanian was banned entirely.

🟢To keep the language alive, people would smuggle books📚📚 from East Prussia, in the present-day Russian Kaliningrad region, over the border and into Lithuania.

Thanks to book smugglers, we preserved our language and fell in love with books.❤️
📸Andrius Aleksandravičius


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