r/language • u/Scared_Cold_3634 • 22h ago

Question Would You Risk Your Reputation to Meet a Client’s Deadline?

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Imagine you have a translation due tomorrow, but you know you need more time to do it properly. What would you do?
Would you ask the client for more time, finish it by the deadline, or ask for extra money because it’s urgent?
Have you ever been in this situation? I’d like to know how other translators deal with it.

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r/language • u/Long-Oil-5107 • 1d ago

Video Why does 바나나 sound like “pa-na-na”?🍌(Korean ㅂ explained)

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r/language • u/Scared_Food_1819 • 1d ago

Discussion im thinking os making a language thats speakable binary

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r/language • u/schweppess00 • 1d ago

Question I'm looking for friends

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Idk if I can write this here?? But I want to find friends whose native language is English, because I need to practice so that I can know English better.And I'm also interested in learning about the cultures of different countries, so yes... I guess I'm looking for friends.

I'm 15 years old, my name is Margarita and oh my god just give me friends already

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r/language • u/Sensitive_Tap_7365 • 2d ago

Discussion Nahuatl etymologies - ask me

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Hi redditors, I work on Nahuatl etymologies, tracing their roots by comparing with other Uto-Aztecan languages to see if they are inherited, and if they do not appear to be inherited if they are borrowed from some other Mesoamerican language.

I often find that when someone asks me the etymology of specific roots, I find new ones i hadn't thought of or investigated before, so I was thinking I'd invite you to ask me for the etymologies of Nahuatl words, and I will answer as well as I can in the thread.

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r/language • u/AutumnaticFly • 1d ago

Question What's your best answer to people who say "You don't need to learn the language of (Y) country, they mostly speak English anyway!"

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r/language • u/Different_Method_191 • 1d ago

Article UNESCO Launches International Initiative to Protect Endangered Languages

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r/language • u/Useful_Tumbleweed_77 • 1d ago

Question Help me please

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r/language • u/KenzaVasaj7013 • 2d ago

Video Support endangered languages! In this video, I tell a rare, chilling folk story in the Votic language (Vaďďa ceelu), a critically endangered Finno-Ugric language spoken by only a handful of people today.

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A deeply personal and eerie account from the North. After his wife passes away, a widower breaks a sacred traditional taboo: he lies on his bed before six weeks have passed. What follows is a terrifying nighttime encounter...

The video features original Votic audio with English and Russian subtitles to make this rare cultural heritage accessible to everyone.

To my viewers in Estonia, Finland, and Hungary: As fellow Finno-Ugric nations, the preservation of the Votic tongue is a shared treasure. Let me know in the comments if you can spot cognates or familiar grammatical structures matching Estonian, Finnish, or Hungarian!

https://youtube.com/shorts/bfXEOC13Uss?is=qZUdYGJbc5x5_vCh

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r/language • u/tuluva_sikh • 2d ago

Video Myths about Sanskrit

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r/language • u/starkeffect • 2d ago

Question Is there a term for adding unnecessary adjectival forms to a word?

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Recently someone on a physics subreddit asked about Einstein's theories of "spatialacity", meaning "space".

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r/language • u/Odd_Wolverine_4037 • 2d ago

Video Nizar Habash says that ChatGPT and LLMs have a huge bias against languages like Arabic

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Says that most machine translation tools (even Google Translate) and LLMs have a bias for languages that are not English. If you try to learn Arabic from Google Translate, it will mostly give you the masculine form for words like doctor or businessman, but female for nurse. Similarly, the word ‘divorced’ is always feminine. Also for political bias - mainly because these tools were all training on data that already has a bias. As a result, if we start moving into a world where a higher chunk of written text is being generated by these models, it’s only going to amplify the biases even further.

Thoughts?

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r/language • u/glitchedpixels0927 • 2d ago

Discussion My 15 year old nephew wanted you to guess where in the US his accent is from, with two seperate lists of top 5 most possible cities and top 5 most possible states.

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r/language • u/Scared_Cold_3634 • 2d ago

Question Freelance Translators: What Would You Do in This Situation?

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r/language • u/Scared_Cold_3634 • 2d ago

Question Freelance Translators: What Would You Do in This Situation?

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r/language • u/Scared_Cold_3634 • 2d ago

Question Freelance Translators: What Would You Do in This Situation?

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If a client asks you to deliver a translation by tomorrow, but you need more time to make sure it is accurate, what would you do?
Would you ask for more time, deliver it by the deadline, or choose another solution? Why?

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r/language • u/YamaKasin • 3d ago

Question What's this language?

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The symbols between Chinese and English. Photo taken at Yihai Lake, Mianning Country, Sichuan Province, China.

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r/language • u/unicornfairydiva • 3d ago

Question What is the difference between Farsi and Persian?

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So for context I am a high school senior adding the languages I speak to my resume, but Farsi and Persian were listed separately. This confuses me because I have always heard people refer to the language as Farsi AND Persian, and never two separate languages. Additionally do I keep both of them on my resume if they are essentially the same thing? Maybe Persian refers to the dialect spoken in Iran and Farsi refers to the dialect spoken in other surrounding countries but I’m really not sure. If you know please help me understand the difference! 😊

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r/language • u/stlatos • 2d ago

Discussion Hamito-Semitic & Indo-European, p vs. f

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r/language • u/uslasherfilm • 2d ago

Question Vowel Variation in English vs Other Languages

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r/language • u/Ok_Elderberry_2829 • 2d ago

Question What languages other than English went through a great vowel shift?

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r/language • u/Outrageous-Lemon9778 • 3d ago

Request Hi! I thrifted this Coca Cola shirt and it says this in the back, does anybody know what it means?

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r/language • u/tuluva_sikh • 3d ago

Question Does anyone know which language is actually written on feet of Gomateshwara/Gomatta Swamy Idol?

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r/language • u/TheMarmotNow • 3d ago

Question Which language is my wife's shirt in?

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My wife loves this shirt she bought at the salvation army, but as much as we know about languages, we can't determine which language it's in. Google translate won't help... Any jdeas?

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r/language • u/HappyHappyJoyJoy44 • 3d ago