For Marjane – Who Drew the Truth

There are artists who entertain, and then there are artists who rescue you. Marjane Satrapi was the second kind. She picked up a pen and drew what so many of us could not put into words – the vertigo of living between worlds, the grief of a homeland that both shaped and expelled you, the …

Bilingualism Is Valuable. Translation Is a Separate Craft.

One of the most persistent assumptions about translation is that bilingualism and translation are the same skill—that if someone speaks two languages, they can naturally translate between them at a professional level. This assumption is understandable. Bilingual speakers often move fluidly between languages in everyday life, sometimes without even noticing it. That fluency can make …

Shared Origins of Words

Did You Know That: The existence of Iranian pronunciation for numbers two- دو (dough), five- پنج (panj), and six- شش (shesh) in Polish language, two- دوا (dwa), five- پینجِی (peeyenj) and six- ششج (sheshej) indicates a distant and common root of these two Indo-European languages. Similarly, the given name Darius (داریوش) is more frequently used …