KALINGUA

24/06/2020

Editor’s note: The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the persistent health disadvantage of Indigenous populations into focus, as well as the exclusion of Indigenous languages from public health communication. In this...

14/03/2020

"Officials in the Venetian-controlled port city of Ragusa (now Dubrovnik, Croatia) passed a law establishing "trentino", or a 30-day period of isolation for ships arriving from plague-affected areas. Within a century, cities extended the isolation period from 30 to 40 days, and the term changed from "trentino" to "quarantino", the root of the English word quarantine that we use today.

'Trentino' just doesn't have the same ring to it.

03/11/2019

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31/10/2019

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13/02/2019

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27/06/2018

https://www.facebook.com/memrise/photos/a.595530880473616.152371.149149908445051/2341736765853010/?type=3&theater

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13/06/2018

http://time.com/5309282/lee-yun-hyang-trump-kim-translator/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-button-sharing

"She’s an unsung hero"

13/03/2018

https://youtu.be/gmOTpIVxji8

Ad that makes fun of German accents and encourages you to learn a foreign language. Hilarious!

25/02/2018

A Spanish speaking bandit held up a bank in Tucson. The sheriff and his deputy chased him. When they captured him, and the sheriff, who couldn't speak Spanish, asked him where he'd hidden the money... "No sé nada," he replied.

The sheriff put a gun to the bandit's head and said to his bi-lingual deputy: "Tell him that if he doesn't tell us where the money is right now, I'll blow his brains out."

Upon receiving the translation, the bandit became very animated. "¡Ya me acuerdo! Tienen que caminar tres cuadras hasta ese gran árbol: allí está el dinero."

The sheriff leaned forward. "Yeah? Well..?"

The deputy replied: "He says he wants to die like a man."

08/02/2018

http://mentalfloss.com/article/48795/9-little-translation-mistakes-caused-big-problems

Knowing how to speak two languages is not the same thing as knowing how to translate.

27/01/2018

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