RT @Wordbee: Did you know there are over 130 different creole #languages? Learn all about creole languages on the latest #TheInternationalBuzzpodcast with Catharine Cellier-Smart: buff.ly/2OuQvtR

🇺🇸 The Association of Independent Judicial #Interpreters of California (AIJIC) to oppose motion to dismiss lawsuit alleging court #interpreter identity theft
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via @multilingualmag

🇺🇸 2 months after widespread backlash, California Judicial Council moves forward with #interpreter pay proposal
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via @multilingualmag

Dictionary.com’s 2026 Word of the Year is…
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‘Maxxing’ is Dictionary.com’s word of the year: ‘It’s cooler than saying you’re doing more’. As all facets of our lives are optimized, the suffix has become inescapable - and experts predict it’s around to stay
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by @CantorMatthew

👍 How choice of #language changes which brand AI recommends: English-only AI can miss how recommendations change when AI answers the same buying questions in 5 different #languages
searchenginejournal.com/lost-in-transl…
by @moaiandin
via @sejournal

⚙️ Dire « en mode », c’est faire comme si l’humain pouvait se « régler » comme un appareil. Pourquoi parlons-nous comme des machines ?
theconversation.com/en-mode-pourqu…
via @FR_Conversation

#Translator Pablo Martín Sánchez won the National Prize for Best Translation and €30,000 for #translating Georges Perec into #Catalan
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🇳🇿 New Zealand police investigators misused artificial intelligence #translation tools numerous times in seriously risky ways, official documents show
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🦟 From 'patio' to 'canyon', 17 #Spanish words we use every day
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🤖"Take with food” vs “don’t take with food”?
🩺 In a setting where a #mistranslated word can mean the difference between an accurate diagnosis and a dangerous mistake, the consequences of AI #translation can be deadly
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via @Slate

🇯🇲 Centuries of historical baggage surrounds Creole #languages. Micha Frazer-Carroll has vowed to overcome shame, and to connect with this part of her culture
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🤔 Why are people so obsessed with sounding like a native speaker? Who decides what a good accent sounds like, and are people setting themselves impossible standards?
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💡 Word coinages that changed the world – and some that tried to but didn't succeed ...
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🎞 @UniversityLeeds has launched a new online and self-paced CPD course entitled "Enhanced Subtitling", offering audiovisual #translators a practical, research-based pathway to developing subtitles that better serve diverse audiences
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💶 Nouveau billet euro: d’où nous vient le mot «billet» ?
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via @FigaroPlume

⚾️ Why do we say "eye on the ball"? Before it was a metaphor for staying focused, it was simply sports advice
mentalfloss.com/language/eye-o…
via @mental_floss

🤑 Focus on the clients who can afford you, says Corinne McKay
trainingfortranslators.com/2026/10/13/foc…

💡 Are polyglot creators capturing real human connection, or gaming social media? People who speak many #languages in man-on-the-street videos are impressive, but they’re also turning conversation into a chance for optimization.
nytimes.com/2026/10/06/mag…
by @mericson
via @nytimes

🤖 It’s not ‘AI,’ and it’s not ‘superintelligence.’ So, what is it? Trump’s obsession with rebranding artificial intelligence is drudging up a decades-long debate about how to best describe the technology
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by @stokel
feat. @tonythorne007
via @FastCompany

🐶 A dog’s life, a #translator’s challenge: 4-legged friends took centre stage in this year’s @UN St. Jerome #Translation Contest, giving 105 students from 23 universities around the world plenty to sink their #linguistic teeth into
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Stop making sense: focus on sounds to help learn a #language, study suggests; research shows that the best #linguists process unfamiliar foreign speech sounds more like non-speech sounds
theguardian.com/science/2026/o…

🇰🇷 As Korean shows go global, Netflix rethinks the art of #translation
koreabizwire.com/as-korean-show…