Author Archives: Richard Samson

About Richard Samson

I’m a teacher living in Osona, Spain. I'm into tennis, dogs, and chickens. I’m also interested in translation and Moodle (well, digital tools for teaching, in general).

Open expert conversations 2024

Translation capsules is a series of online conversations between prestigious translation and language specialists and members of the UVic-UCC Department of Translation, Interpreting and Applied Languages. #conversatrad Each conversation is a live online webinar open to all who register. Tradiling is … Continue reading

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Word of the year 2023

It’s that time of year. Dictionary publishers are telling us about the trends they have detected in 2023. In this article we focus on six English picks but later on we may open out the article to include items in … Continue reading

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Translation in the era of artificial intelligence

The professional translation sector has changed dramatically over the past thirty years, harnessing fast-changing technological advances: personal computers (1980s), translation memories, fuzzy matching and terminology databases (1990s), online translation projects (2000s), neural machine translation (2010s) and, most recently, large language … Continue reading

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If I must die

If I must die, you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long tail) so that a child, somewhere in Gaza while looking … Continue reading

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Manufacturing Consent. BBC Israel/Palestine coverage

  The mass media, social media, news channels, fake news, propaganda and manipulation, through narrative, language, selection and censorship, have shaped our perception of reality. Since the publication of Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Herman and … Continue reading

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