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Who do you think you’re apostrophising? The dark side of grammar pedantry
He’s been called “punctuation’s answer to Banksy”. A self-styled grammar vigilante who spends his nights surreptitiously correcting apostrophes on shop signs and billboards. The general consensus is that he’s a modern-day hero – a mysterious crusader against the declining standards of English. But his exploits represent an altogether darker reality. The man himself is not […]
Translation platforms cannot replace humans
But they are still astonishingly useful ARAB newspapers have a reputation, partly deserved, for tamely taking the official line. On any given day, for example, you might read that “a source close to the Iranian Foreign Ministry told Al-Hayat that ‘Tehran will continue to abide by the terms of the nuclear agreement as long as […]
The New Language Barrier: Zero Digital Content
A language barrier doesn’t have to be something that exists between two people. It can also exist between a person and a machine. In fact, a lack of digital content in thousands of languages is a new kind of language barrier—one that prevents millions of people around the world from getting information. There’s no language barrier for this woman when […]
