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Today’s blog is a guest post from English Trackers’ new intern Robynne. She studied Chinese at university but her real passion is social media. Image: fullygeek.com A few days ago we blogged about how the rise of the Internet, and in particular social media, has led to the inclusion of words such as ‘retweet’ and ‘sexting’ in . . . → Read More: OMG I <3 that they have put LOL in the dictionary! Yesterday I blogged about the publication of the new Concise Oxford English Dictionary and as I wrote I wondered what happened to the words that were literally pushed out of the dictionary to make way for new words. A journalist friend seemingly telepathically picked up my query and sent me a link to an article that provided . . . → Read More: Disappearing words As society evolves, so does language. And where better to track the changes than the dictionary. This month, Oxford University Press publishes a centenary edition in the form of the 12th edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. The growth of social media has spawned a whole new vocabulary and some of the dictionary’s new entries, such . . . → Read More: New times – new words Translators and editors have different areas of expertise and will take on work according to their preferred fields. Usually when a translator’s or editor’s passion converges with their language skills, the resulting document is a real pleasure to read. I love working on legal documents. Some people find them wordy or too full of legal . . . → Read More: Deciphering legalese When I was a pupil in the UK, Latin was an obligatory subject for the first three years of middle school. As children, we couldn’t see the point of learning a dead language only spoken in Vatican circles. We used to write the following little rebellious rhyme on our Latin exercise books: Latin is a . . . → Read More: Resurrecting a dead language: a new dictionary is born |
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