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Just because you don’t get it doesn’t mean it’s vague
“What about slang words and acronyms, aren’t they vague language?” Someone asked me this recently, and I wanted to say no right away, but I had to think about why. After thinking on it, I say no, slang words and acronyms are not vague language because they do not have inherently vague meanings; if anything, […]
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14 Words That Are Their Own Opposites | Mental Floss
14 Words That Are Their Own Opposites | Mental Floss
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The many meanings of “hot” and other short words
I was ordering one of those new chicken-and-salad McWraps today, and I asked if the chicken were hot. I had to clarify I meant “hot as in temperature,” not “hot as in spicy.” It got me to thinking about how many meanings there are to the word hot: High-temperature Spicy Stolen Sexy Turned on (both sexually and, in the […]
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Teaching a workshop in Albuquerque
Flying to Albuquerque to teach a workshop on interpreting into English. I call it “Tripplingly on the tongue” after Hamlet’s speech to the players. 😉
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Settings vs. specializations: Categorizing interpreting work
Is “freelance” a setting? I’ve heard people say they used to be “educational” and now they’re “freelance.” What they mean is they used to be employed full-time at a school and now they work as an independent contractor for agencies. Yet interpreters can work full-time in schools and be “freelance” if they’re working at that […]
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