#language interpretation

[pendulum-sonata]

So, it's been a while since I stopped being a video medical interpreter and I'm a translator now (basically only work with text now, and interpreters only do voice) but I'm still in touch with some of my former coworkers, and boy one of them hit me with a realization today:

Apparently so many medical staff and providers are under the impression that audio or video interpreters are not real people, that they're "virtual" or fake people, and with the AI boom, some of them think that they're AI programs??

Which actually goes a looong way to explain why some of them have downright awful behavior with them tbh (srsly it's so bad that I didn't care to be paid a bit less as a translator >.<)

So for anyone reading here who might work in field that requires them to deal with audio or video interpreters, please, please know this:

Those are NOT computer or virtual or fake people, those are real people working remotely to do the interpretation, there is a real person behind the voice and/or screen you're using to communicate, so please, don't treat them like a machine.

So, don't be mean, rude or condescending, if you're too tired or burned out in your job to be nice, being civil and respectful will do, and I'm certain, your experience with them will be a lot better if you can do that.

[languagexs]

Unraveling the Similarities and Differences of Persian vs Arabic Languages

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[translangua08]

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[omegaphilosophia]

The Philosophy of Connotation and Denotation

The philosophy of connotation and denotation deals with the ways in which words and expressions convey meaning. These concepts are central to semantics, the study of meaning in language, and are used to distinguish between the literal or direct meaning of a term (denotation) and the associated or implied meanings that the term evokes (connotation).

Key Concepts:

Denotation:

Literal or Primary Meaning: Denotation refers to the direct, explicit meaning of a word—the specific object, idea, or concept that the word points to. It is the "dictionary definition" of a term, the meaning that is universally understood and unambiguous.

Objective Reference: Denotation is concerned with the objective relationship between a word and what it refers to in the real world. For example, the word "rose" denotes a type of flower.

Connotation:

Associated or Implied Meanings: Connotation involves the secondary, associated meanings that a word carries in addition to its denotation. These meanings can be emotional, cultural, or contextual, and they often evoke certain feelings, associations, or images.

Subjective and Contextual: Unlike denotation, connotation is more subjective and can vary depending on the context, culture, or individual interpretation. For instance, the word "rose" may connote romance, beauty, or love.

Importance in Language and Communication:

Nuances of Meaning: Understanding the difference between denotation and connotation is crucial for grasping the full meaning of language. Words with the same denotation can have very different connotations, which can affect how they are perceived or interpreted.

Cultural and Emotional Significance: Connotations are heavily influenced by cultural context and can carry significant emotional weight. For example, the word "home" denotes a place of residence, but it may connote warmth, security, and family.

Examples in Language:

Positive and Negative Connotations: Words can have positive, negative, or neutral connotations even when their denotations are similar. For example, "childlike" (positive connotation: innocence) vs. "childish" (negative connotation: immaturity).

Synonyms with Different Connotations: Consider the words "slim" and "skinny." Both denote a thin person, but "slim" often has a positive connotation (attractiveness), while "skinny" can have a negative connotation (underweight or unhealthy).

Philosophical Implications:

Meaning and Interpretation: Philosophers and linguists have explored how connotation and denotation affect meaning and communication. The distinction helps in understanding how language can influence thought, perception, and behavior.

Semiotics and Symbolism: The study of connotation and denotation is also relevant in semiotics, the study of signs and symbols. Denotation relates to the literal signified meaning, while connotation involves the symbolic or cultural meanings attached to a sign.

Applications in Literature and Rhetoric:

Literary Analysis: In literature, connotation plays a key role in the interpretation of texts, where the choice of words can convey deeper meanings and evoke emotions beyond their literal sense.

Rhetorical Strategies: Speakers and writers often choose words with specific connotations to persuade, influence, or evoke certain responses from their audience.

Challenges and Criticisms:

Ambiguity and Miscommunication: The connotative meanings of words can lead to ambiguity or miscommunication, especially in cross-cultural contexts where different connotations might be attached to the same word.

Evolving Meanings: Connotations can change over time as cultural and social contexts evolve, making it challenging to pin down the exact connotative meaning of a word across different eras or societies.

The philosophy of connotation and denotation provides a framework for understanding the complexities of meaning in language. While denotation gives us the direct, literal meaning of a word, connotation enriches language by adding layers of associated or implied meaning. This distinction is essential for effective communication, literary analysis, and the study of semantics and semiotics. Understanding how words can carry different connotations helps in interpreting language more fully and appreciating its nuanced impact on thought and culture.

[saywhat-politics]

Since Trump took office all videos with American Sign Language interpreters have been removed from the White House website and YouTube channels. What could be the point of this beyond pure cruelty?

[opashoo]

I'm absolutely losing my mind seeing "We need to not treat men and masculinity as inherently evil and worthy of hatred, and not fall back into biological and gender essentialism because that hurts everyone, including trans women" being misinterpreted as "Women need to stop oppressing men", "I think trans women are actually men" or "You specifically who have trauma around men need to get over it because men are the real victims". It's so willfully disingenuous. It makes me sick how willing people are to read in bad faith, especially how willing other trans women are to suddenly start harassing and dogpiling another trans woman.

I am a trans woman too, I understand what it's like to feel unsafe, but it helps no one this cynical attitude that crops up every time someone suggests being kind to men in our lives. "You could save a man you know from falling down the alt-right pipeline" is not the same as "It's your fault that men murder you". "There are people who could be on our side if we don't meet them with immediate hostility" is not the same as "You need to shut up and stop criticizing power structures for the sake of your oppressors' feelings" (I promise there are a lot of people who can be taught about their complicity in oppression without immediately shutting down but you need to work with them). This kind of attitude isn't somehow more informed or correct. It's just lashing out to avoid considering one's own agency.

Making a better, safer world for ourselves requires all kinds of work, but it's always work. It's hard to try to reach out to people who could very realistically harm us, it's work that not all of us can afford to or are able to do and that's fine because we're all just trying to survive. But some of you would rather condescend, tear each other down, and make more enemies before even considering it a possibility.

[valkugo]

"He loved it not because it looked like a gentle, thoughtful young man, but because it was ghastly and awful and loathsome, and beautiful all at the same time. He loved it the way people love evil, because it thrills them to the core of their souls." — The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice.

[shrews-things]

Amúgy ha bárki szeretne panaszt tenni az Európai Bizottságnál erről az egész borzalomról ami épp folyik, gondoltam leírom, ezeknek mond ellent az új törvény:

Megkülönböztetés tilalma: az Európai Unió működéséről szóló szerződés 2. részének 19. cikke (article 19 of part 2 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union)

Gyülekezési jog: az Európai Unióról szóló szerződés 2. cikke (2nd article of The Treaty on European Union), az Európai Unió Alapjogi Charta 2. fejezetének 12. cikke (article 12 of chapter II of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union), Az emberi jogok európai egyezményének 11. cikkelye (11th article of The European Convention on Human Rights)

Adatok védelméhez való jog: az Európai Unió működéséről szóló szerződés 16. cikke (article 16 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union), az Európai Unió Alapjogi Chartájának 7. és 8. cikke (articles 7 and 8 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights)

A szövegnek nem kell hosszúnak lennie, akár csak leírhatjátok, hogy milyen törvény ellen tesztek panaszt, utána meg bemásolhatjátok a fenti listát <3

[amber-tortoiseshell]

Is the gene that makes housecats black/solid the same gene that makes panthers black?

Depends on the species! Leopards have a recessive ASIP mutation just like housecats, but jaguars have a dominant MC1R mutation, the same gene that makes yellow/red variants in a lot of animals. Gain of function MC1R mutations are (co)dominant and make the animal produce more eumelanin, loss of function mutations are recessive and result in more phaeomelanin. (For ASIP, it's the opposite.)

Both genes are responsible for melanism in several felids:

ASIP: domestic cat, leopard, asian golden cat, pampas cat, kodkod

MC1R: jaguar, jaguarundi*, geoffroy's cat

*This one is interesting, because the reddish variant seems to be the original and the more common dark is the later mutation.

And the species with still unknown genetics: serval, oncilla, marbled cat, bobcat, southern tigrina, margay, jungle cat, african golden cat, african wild cat**

**Technically i think it's possible that the melanism of domestic cats is a direct heritage of the african wildcats from before domestication OR that the melanism of african wildcats is an evidence of crossbreeding with domestic cats; either way they would have the same ASIP mutation.

[phoenixkaptain]

Reading the novelization of A New Hope already changed how I saw Luke as a character but Splinter of the Mind’s Eye is going one step further and making me question the very fundamentals thought to be obvious about Luke.

Like, Luke is, for lack of a better term, a nerd. He studied languages and cultures -

“”Yes,” Luke admitted modestly. “I used to study a lot about certain worlds, back on my uncle’s farm on Tatooine. It was my only escape, and educational as well. This,” and he indicated the creature resting a massive long arm on his head and shaking him in a friendly fashion, “is a Yuzzem.””

-he wants to study more languages and cultures-

“Empty doorways beckoned to him and he was tempted, very tempted, to enter one of the ruined structures to find out if its interior was as well preserved as the outside.

This was not, he reminded himself firmly, the time for playful exploration. Their first concern was to find a way out, not to go poking around this ancient metropolis. However wonderful it was.”

Luke wants to know about people. He wants to know about cultures and creatures and he wants to be able to communicate and…

He really just. Is a great Jedi. He jumps between Leia and danger and he befriends the Yuzzem the prison guards thought would kill him and he wants to explore the creepy abandoned ruins of a civilization long past and he uses Anakin’s lightsaber underwater to cut the stem of a lilypad they use as a boat and he comments that the rock formations are almost too beautiful to cut down and he knows how to work Imperial explosives and

He’s a Jedi, man. He’s a Jedi. He’s been a Jedi this whole time, before any of us even knew what that actually meant.

[fl00mie]

daisy bell gives me so many fatal error vibes that i can't describe it

swap sans by popcornpr1nce fatal_error by @xedramon

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

The Language of Flowers: An Alphabet of Floral Emblems – published by T. Nelson and Sons (1857) // Maroon – Taylor Swift

[translangua08]

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[destiel-wings]

Dean Winchester & hug dynamic analysis

I was thinking about how whenever Dean hugs someone he's almost always the one hugging the other and how this links to his psychological trauma of always being the caretaker of people, making himself bigger to protect them.

Because that's how Dean sees himself, as a shield for others, and then I thought about how Cas actually is the shield, and he's HIS SHIELD, specifically, the only one who's really there to protect HIM, which is why it hits so much when we see this:

The way Cas wraps his arms around him, trying to protect him with his whole body--that he'd use as a shield and give up in a second if he could spare him from any pain and save him.

(for context: Dean was about to go use the soul bomb on Amara there, it was a suicide mission)

Bobby is another one that hits, he hugs him as the big hugger because he's his father, he loves him and he's actually here to protect him (and Dean LETS him -barely, but he lets him *and Cas* - in a way that he doesn't let Sam)

I watched a compilation of Sam & Dean hugs to check if i was right about it, but it's almost always Dean the big hugger with Sam, except when he's about to die or Sam sees him alive again after losing him.

Even then, Dean mostly tries to hug Sam as the big hugger anyway, with at least one arm, like a way to comfort him, making him feel protected, like his body language is saying "I'm here, I'm okay, I'm still strong, i can still protect you" (because their real father failed and Dean thinks it's his job).

He rarely lets himself be the little one hugged with Sam, unless he's barely conscious. Which is why it kills me so much more now that in this moment (s14, when Dean was going to lock himself in the Ma'lak box cause he was possessed by Michael) and Sam has a desperate breakdown and punches him (to stop him) he forcefully hugs him as the little hugger, the way Dean always kept him, like a way of saying "I still need you to protect me, please don't do this to yourself".

In the scene below he gives Sam his blessing to do a dangerous (possibly suicidal) mission, and one of his arms is down, but the other one tries to stay up--he's forcing himself to do it and he struggles because he still wants to protect him, but (as the seasons progress) he slowly becomes more prone to let go.

So in this view the hug dynamic becomes an indicator of how Dean sees Sam (and himself) and his protector role, how adult and self sufficient he considers Sam, and how much he lets people around him take care of him, lowering his walls and letting himself be hugged.

This is also why i think hugs from characters like Garth or Charlie are so special, because they're just like us: they see Dean and they just know that he needs to be hugged a lot, and that he's not used to it, so they just go for it-- and it's so normal and kind and spontaneous that Dean's just not used to it-- he doesn't know how to respond (especially with Garth, at the beginning, but as the seasons progress, he learns to, and he even initiates the hug eventually).

I love the hugs where they're 50/50 (one arm up, one arm down both), feels like they're equals, both taking care of each other. I feel like with Sam and Dean, this indicates a healthier dynamic, because Dean lets go a little of the role that was imposed to him and manages to see Sam as the strong individual that he is. But the same applies to 50/50 hugs with other characters, like with Cas, where I feel like it testifies how equals they feel in terms of being fighters, there's a show of respect of each other's strength that transpires by the gesture (which is even more astounding considering that Cas is literally a powerful angel).

And just to end on a destiel note, I'd like to note the possessiveness and protectiveness of Dean (rightfully so) whenever he finds Cas after he thought he had lost him, and how that translates into his body/hug language:

[grimalkhiindi]

I know it makes most sense that Oscar's letter was washed away in the water because yeah obviously. HOWEVER. I think it is infinitely funnier to interpret it instead that John just lied and recited poetry to Arthur because he's still Oscar's number one hater and wanted to make one last ditch effort at motivating Arthur.

[fist-of-vengeance]

i can't believe how many people view mark and helly as an instance of the "forced heterosexual romance between two leads utterly devoid of chemistry" trend. like i respect your opinion and I've been there with many shows before. but i genuinely could not agree less