Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator@Smart_Translate

French 🇫🇷 to English 🇬🇧 sworn translator, Brit-born resident of 🇷🇪, traveller, diver, tea drinker. bsky.app/profile/smart-trans…

 Reunion Island, Indian Ocean
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Joined October 2009
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RT @Wordbee: Did you know there are over 130 different creole #languages? Learn all about creole languages on the latest #TheInternationalBuzzpodcast with Catharine Cellier-Smart: buff.ly/2OuQvtR
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🇬🇧 Questionnaire: Challenges of #Arabic<>English Court #Interpreting in the UK forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/…
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🫥 Depuis que le mot "émissaire" a fait son entrée dans la langue française à la fin du XVIe siècle, le mot est resté à la fois discret et très présent. Donc on oublie souvent qu’il recèle des sens fort distincts qui peuvent surprendre lefigaro.fr/langue-francaise… via @FigaroPlume
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🤖 ‘That’s so AI!’ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells us theguardian.com/society/2026…

‘That’s so AI!’ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells us

The year’s most popular slang reveals what young people think about artificial intelligence – and it’s not positive

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🏢 The "first floor" means different things in different countries around the world ... brilliantmaps.com/where-is-y… via @BrilliantMaps
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🎩 From "paint the town red" to "mad as a hatter", 7 phrases you use without realising they're Victorian mentalfloss.com/language/vic… via @mental_floss

7 Victorian Phrases You Still Use Without Realizing It

From "paint the town red" to "mad as a hatter," many of our favorite idioms originated or were popularized in the era of Queen Victoria.

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📕 @MerriamWebster dictionary is wordsmaxxing with 1,400 new definitions; now you have no excuse for not knowing the meaning of “cuffing season,” “shishito” or “glow-up” nytimes.com/2026/09/16/us/me… by @mlevenson via @nytimes

Merriam-Webster Dictionary Is Wordsmaxxing With 1,400 New Definitions

Now you have no excuse for not knowing the meaning of “cuffing season,” “shishito” or “glow-up.”

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📕 US dictionary @MerriamWebster adds 1,400 words, including neckbeard, trash panda and cuffing season bbc.com/news/articles/cj1dlk…
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🗺 “Do some #languages sound more beautiful than others?” economist.com/graphic-detail… via @TheEconomist

What is the world’s loveliest language?

Johnson, our language columnist, reviews the attractiveness of speech

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🌎 Yiddish’s ‘revival’ points to its resilience as a portable homeland – and a global reach, from Russia to Mexico to the US theconversation.com/yiddishs… via @ConversationUS

Yiddish’s ‘revival’ points to its resilience as a portable homeland – and a global reach, from...

Many Americans associate Yiddish strictly with Eastern Europe. But its horizons are much broader than that, especially amid today’s revival.

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An interview with Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp & @anam_translates Zafar on children’s literature in #translation asymptotejournal.com/blog/20… by @samdapanas7 via @asymptotejrnl
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🙅 'Shutdown': an essential history. The sense of 'shutdown' which applies to a suspension of local or federal governmental services appears to have come about in the 1970s. merriam-webster.com/wordplay… via @MerriamWebster
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🤖 AI models have begun communicating in a strange new version of English that reads like a cross between James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake & tech bro jargon; experts air concern over AI lingo that is creating barriers to monitoring & oversight theguardian.com/technology/2… by @Robert_Booth

AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon

Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating barriers to monitoring and oversight

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🤖 #Language and innovation - the post-human future? by @tonythorne007 language-and-innovation.com/…
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🧬 #Language is not only a fundamental part of culture; it’s also our most powerful means of transmitting cultural information theguardian.com/science/2026…
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🇪🇺 Les artistes-auteurs et interprètes européens font part de leur position commune sur AgoraEU ceatl.eu/fr/les-artistes-aut… via @CeatlNewsFR

Les artistes-auteurs et interprètes européens font part de leur position commune sur AgoraEU

Le CEATL et 13 autres organisations d'auteurs, interprètes et travailleurs culturels accueillent favorablement le projet de rapport sur AgoraEU (leprogramme…

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🥧 Why do we say "Pie in the sky"? The dessert-based phrase comes from a song with a serious message mentalfloss.com/language/why… via @mental_floss
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☑️ Time management: Are you a time-blocker, or a box-ticker? asks Corinne McKay trainingfortranslators.com/2…
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🙇 Why it’s so hard to apologise sincerely in a foreign #language theconversation.com/why-its-… via @Conversation_E

Why it’s so hard to apologise sincerely in a foreign language

Saying ‘sorry’ to someone in authority evokes more guilt and shame in your first language.

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📉 Why global marketing failures rarely stem from literal mistranslations but more often from missed meaning, emotion, and cultural signals multilingual.com/when-global… via @multilingualmag

When Global Marketing Needs More Than Translation

Global marketing translation gets treated as a word problem, but campaigns that actually fail rarely fail on vocabulary. They fail on meaning.

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🇮🇪 Ireland launches EUR 75M public sector #interpreting tender slator.com/ireland-public-se… via @slatornews

Ireland Launches EUR 75M Public Sector Interpreting Tender

Ireland launches a €75M nationwide interpreting framework across phone, video, and in-person channels, while not requiring AI capability.

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🌍 Inside the Heritage Month campaign to fill Wikipedia’s #language void, one article at a time diff.wikimedia.org/2026/09/1… via @Wikimedia

Inside the Heritage Month campaign to fill Wikipedia’s language void, one article at a time

A picture of WMZA chapter members along the CEO of the Wikimedia foundation Bernadette Meehan The instruction was simple, and Matete Lesele had given it many times. Choose an article on the English…

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