Many LSPs claim to do “everything” in language services: translation, interpretation, transcreation, internationalization, on and on, and for ALL verticals, in all languages. Yet being “all things to all people” makes marketing and selling very hard. Because it’s not possible to excel in ...
Ever since then, I’ve been reveling in the fact that there are 6,999 other ways to do this. How do they differ? Why are they different the way they are? That is what got me into language. For Boroditsky, it started a bit later: ...
there’s a good chance you’ll work with people whose first language isn’t English. Maybe it’s a development team in India, a manufacturing plant in China, or an alternative energy supplier in Germany; being able to communicate in other languages makes you much more valuable to an employe...
I think by now people know this, but the levels of testosterone and estrogen do differ on average between males and premenopausal females, with average testosterone levels very different and the distributions virtually nonoverlapping. Posner is right that hiding hormone names is a way to minimize th...
Why does most of the world travel on the right side today? Theories differ, but there’s no doubt Napoleon was a major influence. The French have used the right since at least the late 18th century. Some say that before the French Revolution, noblemen dr
Parents are the initial teachers of their children, thereby, their speeches and behaviors, to a larger extent, exert a subtle influence on children's character-training and future development. The impacts that...
You may have some questions about when to use Latinx or Latine. This article explains how the terms differ and overlap, and how and why people use them.
It's not just the characters and tones which differ from European languages, but the way words are put together. "I'm learning Polish right now, which is a pretty different language from English or even my Dutch, but there is the same logic to it – the structure o...
Tonality in language is often considered the hardest obstacle to overcome. In languages such as Vietnamese, Thai, Mandarin or Zulu, the meaning or use of words may differ based on their tone (pitch) and movement on each syllable. In other languages, the accent/stress placement within a word...
In general, languages tend to convey the same amount of information per unit of time (Coupé et al., 2019). This is likely because we all share the same hardware, and our brains are only able to process information so quickly. Languages differ in rate of speech, however, so speakers of...