Sylvie Pelissier

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People submit Welsh placenames to protect linguistic heritage Entries include Welsh language names for fields and hills in move to ensure preservation of stories and legends

From Dôl y Tylwyth Teg (Fairies’ Meadow) in Aberfan to Ffynnon Glog (Rock Well) in Gwynedd, Welsh placenames — some steeped in myth, others rooted in everyday history — are being submitted to a new project to preserve the stories written into the landscape.

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And if you want to check out more of the details behind this for yourself, please see this stellar work by the @justsecurity.org team at: www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity Microsoft wants you to ditch your old OS so you can try its new one stuffed with overbearing, if not invasive, AI features.

"Let's rewrite the entire operating system around AI."

The new issue of #Translatio is now available online in #English, #Spanish and #French, a special issue about the FIT Statutory Congress and the XXIII FIT World Congress celebrated last month in #Geneva.
EN: en.translatio.fit-ift.org
ES: es.translatio.fit-ift.org
FR: fr.translatio.fit-ift.org

In 2022, data centres consumed 460 TWh of electricity – as much as France – and could double by 2026.

Google alone used over 21 million cubic meters of water in the same year.

At #UNCTAD16, leaders & experts will work to shape a sustainable digital future.

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How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?

🤖 How #AI #translation use on Wikipedia has sent vulnerable #languages like Greenlandic, Inuktitut, Hawaiian, Igbo and Fulfulde into a doom spiral
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Langue et style dans les récits de transfuge de classe. Ambition sociolinguistique et auto-illusion littéraire · CRISCO - Centre de recherches inter-langues sur la signification en contexte - UR 4255 Conférence de Laélia Véron, maîtresse de conférences à l'université d'Orléans.

Trois interventions à Caen cette semaine!
-Jeudi 16 octobre à l'Université "Langue et style dans les récits de transfuge de classe" (université)
-Vendredi 17 octobre,une présentation de "Trahir et venger" (bibli Tocqueville)
-Samedi 18 octobre, une "grande dicterie" avec Christophe Benzitoun (idem)

How language is hiding the real internet from you Most of the internet is out of your reach, but the barrier isn't just algorithms. In another language, the same platforms turn into whole other worlds.

🍿 With the biggest technology companies based in the US, a cultural blind spot has emerged where we often assume that the English internet is representative of the rest of the world
bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Talk title: ‘Climate change: an ally or a foe for endangered languages?’ Speaker: Audrius Sabūnas. Polyglot Conference visual with Taipei skyline.

Climate change: ally or foe for endangered languages? Audrius Sabūnas on Oceania case studies - Kiribati, islands/coasts, sea-level rise and storms impacting small-speaker communities.

Tickets: PCTaipei.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #LangSky

Programmers Using AI Create Way More Glaring Security Issues, Data Shows AI has proven repeatedly to have issues with accuracy — and using it as a coding assistant creates more security problems, too.

"AI is fixing the typos but creating the timebombs."

Autumn Workshop 2025 - ITI ScotNet 11/10/2025 @ 09:30 - 13:00 - ITI Scottish Network invites you to its autumn workshop: Translating botany: not all a bed of roses? with LYNDA HEPBURN To be held at The Quaker Meeting House, Edinburgh o...

📢 CPD: Translating botany: not all a bed of roses?

Join us in Edinburgh on 11/10/25 for what promises to be a fascinating autumn workshop focusing on plants and translation, run by our very own Lynda Hepburn.

Languages, plant talk and networking included. ☺️
itiscotland.org.uk/events/autum...

Teaching sign language to babies in nurseries. Babies are able to communicate with their hands much earlier than with words. French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) #signlanguage

Best seller in China that I like the look of. She'll Split This Mountain by Bing He Zhai, with illustrations from Qun Bai, a book of feminist retellings of old myths, a few western ones in there, many are traditional, such as fox demons, cave of silken web and moon spirits. #books

The same goes for translation and localization.
You don't get experienced translators if you don't have entry-level translators.

I worry for what our industry will look like 10, 20 years down the line, as the veterans begin to retire.

Announcing the Center for the Art of Translation's DAY OF TRANSLATION 2025! Join us on 9/18 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY. Registration open now for our 12-5 pm panels & tickets available for Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura's 6 pm keynote.

Full announcement ➡️ mailchi.mp/catranslatio...

A Reading List for Women in Translation Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses For Women in Translation Month, observed annually during the month of August, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the…

Happy #WomeninTranslationMonth! Celebrate with us by picking reads from our 2025 reading list, which features works—both written and translated by women—published by lit mags and indie presses:

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Emojipedia Archives Now Fully Available In 19 Languages A few years ago, Emojipedia began the process of translating our site. Today, on the twelfth annual World Emoji Day, that project is officially complete. All emoji entries and emoji information pages ...

Emojipedia Archives Now Fully Available In 19 Languages
blog.emojipedia.org/emojipedia-a...
#emoji #communication #langsky

Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to have IRL workers to fix the technology's screwups.

Oops.

The Quest for AI Sovereignty, Transparency and Accountability This volume is the result of a participatory process developed by the Data and Artificial Intelligence Governance (DAIG) Coalition of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF). An early ve…

Book on “The Quest for #AI Sovereignty, Transparency and Accountability” cyberbrics.info/pre-print-th...

#IGF2025
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Brains over bots: why toddlers still beat AI at learning language Even the smartest machines can’t match young minds at language learning. Researchers share new findings on how children stay ahead of AI - and why it matters.   If a human learned langua...

Love this because it exposes the myth or misunderstanding that babies are passive sponges as they're acquiring languages.

"… children acquire language through an active, ever-changing developmental process driven by their growing social, cognitive, and motor skills…"

Using all 5 senses!
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The city of 700 languages New York is the most linguistically diverse city on the planet. Can it stay that way?

NYC is a linguistic powerhouse. With 700+ languages spoken across its boroughs, it’s the most linguistically diverse city in history & organisations (like the Endangered Language Alliance) collaborate with speakers to document, & preserve them.

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"everyone participating in generative AI is polluting the data supply for everyone"

Link to complaint in Disney v Midjourney: www.scribd.com/document/874... #copyright

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the…

A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts.

For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

AI systems are built on English – but not the kind most of the world speaks AI models too often produce a monolithic version of English that erases variation.

#AI systems are built on English – but not the kind most of the world speaks
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via @theconversation.com
#english #language #langsky

AI can’t match the human art of translation | The Observer Two translators and a Nobel-winning novelist illuminate an undervalued skill

AI can’t match the human art of translation | The Observer buff.ly/rLSTMFZ #langsky #xl8

In this article from the Spring issue of The Linguist, Helen Vassallo writes on the success of the Women in Translation movement, and asks who is still being excluded:
www.ciol.org.uk/Breaking-into-the-book-club
#TheLinguist #LiteraryTranslation #WomenInTranslation #Inclusion #Diversity #Literature