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Malaphors: The art of mixing up your idioms
- Posted on 28.08.2019 | by Florence Joalland

Convict slang manuscript, dubbed Australia’s ‘first dictionary’, offers insight into colonial Tasmania
- Posted on 27.08.2019 | by Florence Joalland

50 words: From hello to kangaroo, new map of Indigenous languages of Australia
- Posted on 26.08.2019 | by Florence Joalland

Six myths about the Swedish language (and why they’re untrue)
- Posted on 23.08.2019 | by Florence Joalland

Trash Talk: On Translating Garbage
- Posted on 22.08.2019 | by Florence Joalland

The Art, Craft, and History of Translation – Mark Polizzotti, the author of “Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto” demystifies the process of literary translation and demonstrates its capacity for art
- Posted on 21.08.2019 | by Florence Joalland

A.I. is translating messages of long-lost languages
- Posted on 20.08.2019 | by Florence Joalland

So long! (Ethymology)
- Posted on 19.08.2019 | by Florence Joalland

Noam Chomsky, the father of modern linguistics is still opening up new kinds of questions and topics for inquiry
- Posted on 16.08.2019 | by Florence Joalland

The language of the Pontic Greeks – ethnic Greeks who settled on the coast of the Turkish Black Sea – evolved completely differently to the language in their homeland
- Posted on 14.08.2019 | by Florence Joalland