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A good interpreter is an invisible interpreterThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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In the interpreting booths of the Yugoslavia Tribunal, neutrality was the job. Even for those translators whose lives had been ruined by the men whose words they were rendering.
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A casa é suaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Belgian writer and TV journalist Annelies Beck writes to Turkish writer and thinker Ece Temelkuran – and to you. « I’ve never seen so many octogenarians dance to live music with…
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Crafting a human text is like wrestling a wild animal
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On Cécile Wajsbrot’s « Nevermore », Eva Meijer’s « Een woord voor », and the constant self-flagellation that comes with putting words to paper.
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It’s all about poetic swimmersThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« I am a philosopher, and philosophers do not often like to use big words. »
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A letter from
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« Even if you feel at home in time and space today, you know that you are already in mourning for the future loss of everything that is beautiful. This is…
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Talk Proto-Indo-European to me, darling
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*wīrós (man), *h₁ék̂wōs (horse), *gwéneh₂ (woman)
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My tongue is Simón Bolívar’s wet dream
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My boyfriend had colombianized my Mexican. But my friends had also argentinized it, chileanized it, venezuelized it, ecuadorized it.
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One last round | Son bir şansThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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English or Turkish? Tipsy or çakırkeyf? A letter to a bi-lingual editor
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The Barren Nothing-PlaceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On growing up in the creases of bilingual versions of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
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Letters from PersepolisThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On the ruined city’s pilgrims & decoders
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Animal gameThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A story about family. « ‘A woman of few words,’ he smiled. ‘How refreshing.’ »
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CannibalinguisticsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Language-learning and people-eating in Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi’s The Centre.