What Is the Point of Literary Translation?
Translators may alter the composition of a line, a paragraph, or a stanza. But when do their choices overstep, and where do the changes stop?
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Accents, Dialects, and Discrimination
From surfer-dude drawls to Valley-girl upspeak, how we talk still defines how we’re seen
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What Does “Lockdown” Even Mean Anymore?
One year into COVID-19, our definitions are constantly changing. But, when politics distort our language, people can die
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Why Language Is Cool
Words are as close to immortality as you’ll ever get
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Don’t Blame the Internet for New Slang
Language is always changing. How has technology forced it to evolve?
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The Power of a Good Sentence
Why writing one isn’t as easy as you think
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Clichés As a Political Tool
How prefabricated language helps everybody from prime ministers to CEOs disguise what they really want to say
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My Quest for the Ultimate Canadianism
The best Canadian word is neither English nor French
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Beyond Bilingualism
The Official Languages Act will soon turn fifty. Have we outgrown it?
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How One Translator Brought Quebec’s Greatest Authors to English Canada
For Sheila Fischman, translation represents the hope that our country’s fractured identity can be healed by understanding how others see the world
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