Does largo mean large? Actualmente means actually, right? And librerÃa? Must be library. If you speak Spanish, or have studied it long enough, you know none of those are right. Largo means long, actualmente can mean currently, and a librerÃa is a bookstore. None of these words set out to fool you. Still, if they were people, you'd call [...]
If you read an autobiography or a personal journal, you likely assume that you are reading the words as the author intended them. If the work has been translated, surely the content sticks as close as possible to the original, right? You may be surprised. Translation comes with risks, and one of the most salient is the threat [...]
Humanity has always needed to communicate cross-culturally. This need is often motivated by scientific research, commerce, political negotiations, or the translation of religious texts. Yet, the different languages of the Earth have always posed potential problems for mistranslation. There are times when these mistranslations have inconsequential results, and there are times when these mistranslations have nearly catastrophic results. Here, we [...]
