The Final Boss: Untranslatable Puns
You can conjugate verbs and debate politics, but can you understand a pun in your target language? This article breaks down why wordplay is the "final boss" of language learning,…
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Translating Poetry’s Untranslatable Soul
Translating poetry is far more than swapping words; it's an art of re-creation. How do you capture a rhyme, a rhythm, or a culturally-specific metaphor without losing the original's soul?…
The History of the French Circumflex
The French language, renowned for its fluidity and musicality, is adorned with a variety of diacritical marks that contribute to its phonetic, etymological, and aesthetic...