Here’s where a personal anecdote fits. Last month, a friend—a freelance translator—complained that AI tools butchered idiomatic phrases. I suggested Qwen2.5-Max. She tried translating the French idiom“Poser un lapin”(literally “to put a rabbit,” meaning to stand someone up). Previous to...
doi:10.24018/EJSOCIAL.2021.1.5.93Qingliang MengJinhua LiuEuropean Open Science Publishing
I will lay before you some of the thoughts that have come to me on such an occasion as this. But you will notice the note of interrogation at the end of my title. One may think about reading as much as one chooses, but no one is going to lay down laws about it. Here in this ...
In this kind of dictionary, the meanings are explained in English like: tocriticize = to say negative things about; to talk about the mistakes of So you have to understand the meaning of the meaning too. This helps you to familiarize your self with the language and also exposes you to ...
Computers could have and assimilate much more information than we do and find more patterns in it all than we do, perhaps including the kinds of biting insights Jane Austen or witty and clever political satirists have and the colorful, poetic language and imagery of Shakespeare, and the poetry...
'It doesn't stop me being an actor,' he says. This autumn he will take the role of Benedick in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing at the Crucible. As boss, does he have the power to annexe roles he likes for himself? 'That's a very good question,' he laughs. 'I made i...
While most of Shakespeare’s audiences would naturally expect the characters to pair off by the end of Act V, he keeps their interest throughout the play by making them wonder who will end up married to whom. There's too much love to go around these days. (Image: BBC FIlms) ...
it would be hopeless if we didn’t already have the anchor of prior experience in simplyusingwords. Wittgenstein’s insight seems painfully obvious in hindsight, but strangely enough seems to have escaped Western philosophy for over two thousand years (notwithstanding Shakespeare’s Juliet ask...
To get this part of writing dialogue down pat, you need to start out by knowing your characters inside out. How does your character talk? Do they come with verbal quirks? Non-verbal quirks? Jay Gatsby’s “old sport,” for example, gives him a distinctive, recognizable voice. It stands...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2015: What to See, How to Eat, Where to Stay The internationally-renowned, 80-year-oldOregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) isn’t really a festival in the traditional sense of the word. Like a Renaissance tragedy, it’s epically long — running this ye...