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Category Archives: English
NFT, vax, perseverance, strollout, vaccine
What do these words have in common? They are the English words of the year 2021, as chosen by lexicographers and users of various eminent anglosphere dictionaries. NFT NFT is the Collins Dictionary word of the year 2021. NFT, the … Continue reading
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Four takeaways from the Peter Bush interview
Editor’s note: This text follows up on the Cápsulas online conversation between Peter Bush and Ronald Puppo of 16th November. Watch the full interview on YouTube. The last Cápsulas de traducción in the current series will take place tomorrow evening, Tuesday … Continue reading
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Métissage
Use of indigenous words rather than foreign loanwords, or vice versa, is a matter of personal preference. Both may have their attractions. The use of “hoard” rather than “collection”, or “make it up” rather than “invent”, reaffirms the writer’s Anglo-Germanic … Continue reading
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Leaning into the new academic year
Do you use the expression “lean in[to] [something]”? Do you know what it means? I have noticed this expression become more common in English over the past few years. I find this intriguing since the creation of a new phrasal … Continue reading
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Forty lost years
Peter Bush continues his output of translations of significant Catalan novels into English with the translation of Quaranta anys perduts (Rosa Maria Arquimbau, 1971), which is published tomorrow by Fum d’Estampa. From the publisher’s catalogue, we read: Published for the … Continue reading
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