“The reality that I had known no longer existed. The places that we have known belong now only to the little world of space on which we map them for our own convenience. None of them was ever more than a thin slice, held between the contiguous impressions that composed…
The way of the dodo, they say. But in this short article, ensconced in the vast anonymity of the Internet, I wanted to mention the value of a select group of people who are becoming fewer and fewer as the years of the twenty-first century continue blowing by in a…
Because Spanish and English are two different languages with a myriad of histories, cultures, and ways of conceptualizing the world, they use different rhetorical strategies to form ideas and construct sentences. These strategies and their results in written discourse—which, after all, is the most pertinent for the translator—can be not…
Knowledge Organization and Dissemination In a world that is increasingly globalized and interconnected, consumers and businesses alike have come to inhabit a marketplace of goods and services that have also become increasingly globalized and technology-driven. In this modern-day context, marketing as an academic field and commercial practice has become all…
In the wake of every origin story that makes its way into the popular imagination—be it in athletics or academics, politics or entertainment—there is the same tendency to elevate someone who has attained a measure of success above their prior conditions. Human beings, as has often been said, love the…
We have a world aflame with the chatter and mile-a-minute passions of the Internet; access to technology that spans every imaginable medium; exposure to more people and more places than ever before; the fleet and evanescent flicker of thoughts and ideas uttered by those who are both anonymous and celebrated,…
Action is of the utmost importance. How could it be otherwise? How many people have said again and again that the utility of knowledge is in its application, that knowledge is useless unless applied to the world of action or taken advantage of for some ulterior purpose? Something has to…
In the second episode of the wonderful 2000 Dutch documentary series Of Beauty and Consolation, which features 26 interviews with 26 of the world’s leading turn-of-the-century scholars, authors, artists, and intellectuals, the late Roger Scruton makes an insightful diagnosis of what is likely to be one of the great human…
Both inside and outside the translation industry, confusion often abounds about the difference between the terms translation and localization. Some clarity is therefore in order: the two words are indeed different, though far from being so distinct in all situations that they could occupy different sectors of the industry. In…
What are these repeated machinations of a world gone mad and doused in a thousand oils? It is the mechanical clinking of the behavioral timepiece that sooner or later falls into silence—which is always, of course, only for a while. From time to time, whenever I have the opportunity on…
