November | 2022 | A Smart Translator's Reunion

Here’s your monthly round-up of news, articles, and blog posts about translation and language for November 2022.

ITI’s Autumn 2022 Pulse survey revealed that business confidence has dipped sharply
Monkeypox has been given a new name by health experts and the World Health Organisation

The virus formerly known as monkeypox

A guide to decolonising the language of conservation is a basic resource for anyone who writes or talks about conservation, climate change, and nature protection (also available
in Spanish, French, & Italian)
Ukrainians and Latvians are repudiating the Russian language, says The Economist

The war in Ukraine, supposedly in defence of Russian culture, has been a disaster on its own terms

There’s a divergence in generational opinions about the exclamation mark … but it’s probably just a result of technology
Word of the Year season kicked off on November 1st when Collins Dictionary announced their choice. They have since been followed by Cambridge Dictionary and Merriam-Webster. Meanwhile, Oxford Dictionaries used a public vote for the first time in its history to decide between three terms.

Gaslighting was WOTY 2022 for which dictionary publisher?

In the documentary “In Flow of Words”, war-crime interpreters tell their own stories
Archaeologists discovered the oldest known sentence – “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard” – written in the earliest alphabet (well technically an abjad) on a comb used to untangle hair and remove lice 3700 years ago. And Spanish researchers found a 2100-year-old bronze plate, apparently the earliest document ever written in the Basque language

the Hand of Irulegi, the earliest known text in Basque script

What if Twitter were named in a language other than English?
November 15th marked the official start to the cyclone season here in the south-west IndianOcean. But how do cyclones/typhoons/hurricanes get named?

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