by Julia Tuff | Nov 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Today’s news of the promising treatment for early stage Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in the form of the monoclonal antibody. lecanemab was cheering news. Heralded in the medical press and the mainstream news as a potential breakthrough in this, until now,... 
by Julia Tuff | Nov 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) Space exploration stepped up a notch with the successful launch of Nasa’s Artemis 1 rocket. The ISS has clocked up almost 9000 days in orbit. More than 500 people have been into space since Yuri Gagarin in 1961. Now with... by Julia Tuff | Jun 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Languages are vanishing around the world at an alarming rate; every two weeks a language dies with its last speaker,according to UNESCO. Between 1950 and 2010, 230 languages went extinct and, today, a third of the world’s languages are spoken by fewer than 1000... by Julia Tuff | May 20, 2019 | Asian Language Translators, Uncategorized
令和 Reiwa: what’s behind the name of Japan’s new era and what does the term really mean? The recent abdication of Japan’s emperor, Akihito, made history in more ways than one. Of note, he is the first Japanese emperor to step down in over 200 years. The accession of... by Julia Tuff | Apr 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Laughing matter: how to translate jokes Heard the one about the translator who walked into a bar? OK, maybe not, but how you’d translate the joke into another language would depend on the punchline. Does it play on words or offer a sly nod to a cultural reference...