Simultaneous interpretation is a very demanding task. Nowadays during conferences, interpreters have a booth with a monitor and microphone and enough room for two interpreters so that they can take turns every ten or fifteen minutes.
I came across a hilarious video recently titled The History of the English Language published by The Open University (open.edu/youtube) and narrated by Clive Anderson. The video is 11 minutes long and shows the many words that were stolen from other languages and countries as the globe changed.
The 23rd edition of the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) will be released on October 16th. It includes more than 195,000 definitions, including 19,000 Americanisms.
American Football. Just as the name says, it is ‘American’, an American sport. Very few other countries have football teams or understand the game. Teams in other countries are mostly connected with U.S. military bases.
Some countries say ‘football’ but they actually mean ‘soccer’. When you search the Internet for ‘football leagues around the world’, up comes a site showing a soccer ball.
Imbalance of social or physical power can lead to bullying, especially by school-aged children. The power to dominate others as well as feeling the power over people who are weaker has no age boundaries.