Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator

RT @Wordbee: Did you know there are over 130 different creole #languages? Learn all about creole languages on the latest #TheInternationalBuzzpodcast with Catharine Cellier-Smart: buff.ly/2OuQvtR

🇺🇸 20 colourful sayings from the US South: there's one for pretty much every situation life might throw at you mentalfloss.com/language/hilar… via @mental_floss

@FigaroPlume Drones: The #linguistic history languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/ via @LanguageLog

💣 L’étymologie historique des mots «drones» et «missiles» lefigaro.fr/langue-francai… via @FigaroPlume

🧠 Impulse and inhibition: the complex ways #bilingual brains balance reason with emotion theconversation.com/impulse-and-in… by @KyriakouAnd, @noctriness & Andrea Révész via @Conversation_E

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Once violently defended from extinction, Welsh is still a part of daily life. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…

🤣 Throwing a punch or throwing your head back: using the verb ‘throw’ dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2026/03/04/thr… via @CambridgeWords

🇳🇴 The Language Council of Norway (@Sprakradgivning) sounds the alarm on #Norwegian #language preservation slator.com/norwegian-lang… via @slatornews

🗳 Elle peut être champêtre, militaire ou électorale : part-on «en campagne» ou «à la campagne»? lefigaro.fr/langue-francai… via @FigaroPlume

☂ The real origin of the word 'supercalifragilistic': the word appeared in print more than 30 years before Mary Poppins merriam-webster.com/wordplay/origi… via @MerriamWebster

🇨🇳 Chinese move to outlaw #multilingual education; draft law formally establishes Mandarin #Chinese as the primary medium for education & official communication nationwide; will significantly restrict the use of minority #languages such as Tibetan & Uyghur languagemagazine.com/2026/03/12/chi…

Corinne McKay on 2️⃣ habits that successful freelancers have in common right now, and which can be helpful to all of us trainingfortranslators.com/2026/03/11/two…

🤔 What's the best way to learn a new #language? Krupa Padhy uncovers how we really learn foreign #languages – in a dual challenge involving both #Portuguese and #Mandarin bbc.com/future/article… via @BBC_Future

🇪🇺 Breakfasts, game nights, car rides: release of version 2.25 of the Parallel European Corpus of Informal Interaction (PECII) for natural #language interactions slator.com/pecii-corpus-n… via @slatornews

🧐 French intellectuals were once at the forefront of dazzling theories about knowledge, liberty, justice, the human condition, and, of course, the meaning of life. But where are the intellectuals now? france24.com/en/tv-shows/fr… via @France24

📉 « En 2025, j’ai eu plus de boulot, mais j’ai moins gagné » : #traductrice Caroline Ville face au choc économique de l’IA challenges.fr/entreprise/cul… via @Challenges

🧟20 modern dating-related #slang words and phrases; some might even give you a little more insight into your relationship or dating experiences mentalfloss.com/language/slang… via @mental_floss

⛑ #Bilingual consent forms significantly improve cancer treatment understanding among people with limited English, with understanding rising from 35% to 60%, a new study finds eurekalert.org/news-releases/…

London Book Fair 2026: Panels at the Literary Translation Centre address continuing concerns for #translators publishingperspectives.com/2026/03/london… via @pubperspectives

No, AI won’t save a weak #translation: subject-matter knowledge still matters aboutranslation.com/2026/03/no-ai-…

Why Riccardo Schiaffino uses AI for review, but not for #translation: why he doesn’t use AI for the first draft, and how could AI help review translations more effectively? aboutranslation.com/2026/03/why-i-…

🏞 Vltava, Sázava, Mumlava: a mumble of voices almost lost: linking local river names to the great sea of Indo-European dannybate.com/2026/03/10/vlt… by @DannyBate4

@BBCGuernsey 🇬🇬 ‘Crapaud’? How AI gets #Guernésiais #translation wrong bailiwickexpress.com/news-ge/crapau…

🇬🇬 An expert in #Guernésiais, Guernsey's native #language, has shared concerns about the ability of artificial intelligence to #translate reliably as there is limited data on the language, no standardised spelling and cultured nuance. bbc.com/news/articles/… via @BBCGuernsey