Around the web – November 2022

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?

Further reading on the blog:

• Brewing up a (tropical) storm
• November 16th was Icelandic language day: here’s my blog post about the language 
• Around the web – September and October 2022

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