Trans-Luscent

10/08/2021

29/12/2019

It is unclear whether emotion terms have the same meaning across cultures. Jackson et al. examined nearly 2500 languages to determine the degree of similarity in linguistic networks of 24 emotion terms across cultures (see the Perspective by Majid). There were low levels of similarity, and thus high...

21/12/2019

Haha, love it!

21/11/2019

Idioms can tell us a lot about how speakers of a certain language express themselves. One interesting idiom that has an amazing and interesting variety across languages is the one describing rainfa…

03/11/2019

How do you do it?

29/10/2019

How much of an impact does the language you speak have on how you actually think?

23/10/2019

Translation is a hard-to-get skill that is not given to everyone. The fact that you speak two languages doesn’t make you a translator. If you haven’t taken any translation courses and a…