Jonathan W.

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Best iPhone Dictionary Apps

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 1:53 pm
While my friend and I were driving through the mountains to a small Appalachian town in southwestern Virginia for their weekly bluegrass jamboree, we passed the turn-off to Green
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Holidays Bring Out Spirits and Conspiracies

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 10:03 am
The last week of October and the beginning of November brings together some fairly disparate events, holidays, and emotions. For one, especially here in the U.S., October 31 is Halloween, that strang...
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Language Assessments Match Patients to Savvy Doctors

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 3:27 pm
Since earning recognition for Innovation in Multicultural Health Care, Kaiser Permanente’s Clinician Cultural Linguistic Assessment language testing tool, which is administered by ALTA, has been...
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Pays d

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 10:05 am
Although not his most famous work, one of Dante Alighieri
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Language and Health Care Reform:ALTA and Kaiser Permanente Breaking Cultural Barriers

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Oct 22, 2009, 2:34 pm
As our nation’s policy makers and health care providers debate the future of health care reform, ALTA and Kaiser Permanente are working together to improve the quality of care for ethnic minorit...
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Global Warming vs Climate Change: A Blog Action Day Word Discussion

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 3:00 pm
In honor of Blog Action Day 2009, here is an exploration of the language used in the climate debates: Today there exist an impressive number of environmental publications, blogs, and websites dedicat...
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The Cream Christ Connection

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Oct 14, 2009, 1:17 pm
There are few things that I love more than finding out that two seemingly very different words share the same root. Like the shared history of pomegranate and hand grenade, these connections between...
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Must We Translate? Rilke in Translation

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 11:04 am
Last week on October 8, Britain celebrated National Poetry Day. The theme was
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Naming House and Home: Word Origins

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 9:58 am
It’s raining heavily again in Atlanta, and the soothing sound of heavy drops hitting against the roof and windows brings to mind the language of house and home. Both the words
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Peace

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Oct 9, 2009, 11:31 am
By now everyone has heard the announcement that the United States
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Translating Languages While Traveling

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 4:40 pm
Students from Longview High School in Texas recently contacted ALTA to ask for advice about a class project. Their project is part of an Engineering Design and Development course where the students tr...
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Days of the Week Word Origins

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 11:52 am
The English names for the days of the week have their roots in astrology and ancient cultures. The practice of naming days after heavenly bodies began
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The Etymology of Cowboy

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 10:56 am
Last night I had the pleasure of hearing Ronny Cox, the actor who played Drew Ballinger in Deliverance and Richard “Dick”
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Talk Like an Animal

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Oct 7, 2009, 4:00 pm
The field of animal cognition has been rapidly expanding since the mid-twentieth century. In the March 2008 issue of National Geographic, Virginia Morell explored the various animal cognition studies...
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Unusual Word Origins

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Sep 22, 2009, 9:55 am
You may be surprised to learn how many of the words we use have unusual origins. Having spent centuries in our lexicons, these words have lost their original significations and now take on colloquial...
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Flood 2009

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Sep 22, 2009, 9:37 am
For those not in Atlanta and who have not heard any news about what is going on right now, we are in the middle of the biggest flood on record. Although it has been raining for over a week now in Geo...
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Making Sense of Sense

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Sep 21, 2009, 8:42 am
When we experience a sensation, we feel it; when something
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On Defining: Do Good Fences Make Good Meanings?

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Sep 15, 2009, 10:06 am
Many a quarrel has ended with a search for the nearest dictionary. The answer to a question of connotation versus denotation, implied or explicit meaning, and historical, social, or academic understa...
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Bento: The Japanese Art of Lunch

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Sep 14, 2009, 11:36 am
Over the past year or so I
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A Ghoulish Season

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Sep 9, 2009, 12:20 pm
Today marks the first unofficial day of Fall and where I am, at least, the weather is starting to cloud up and cool off a bit and the kids are back in school. To celebrate the close of summer, the Ne...
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Translation Graduate Programs: An Overview

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Sep 4, 2009, 10:37 am
It’s that time of the year again, the application cycle for graduate programs across the nation is about to start. Applying to any program is a daunting task, whether it be a certificate progra...
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Sharking

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Aug 31, 2009, 1:46 pm
One of my favorite web comics is Anders Loves Maria by Renee Engstr
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Translation Thoughts

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Aug 31, 2009, 10:57 am
Irish speakers will now be able to use Google
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The Soul of Food

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Aug 26, 2009, 11:51 am
This summer feels like it has been, the summer of food. Between the premiers of movies like Food Inc. and Julie and Julia, the buzz around New York Times food critic Frank Bruni
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Astronomy Turns 400!

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Aug 25, 2009, 2:07 pm
Four hundred years ago today (August 25), Galileo Galilei (Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de’ Galilei) demonstrated the use of a telescope to the Venetian senate. His telescope, a simple leather ...
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Etymology in Process

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Aug 25, 2009, 10:49 am
Over the past few days I managed to pack up all of my belongings into cardboard boxes, meticulously arrange them in a U-Haul truck, drive almost five hundred miles north, unload the truck, and then un...
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Health Scare! 20 Phobias of the Health Care Debate

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Aug 13, 2009, 12:09 pm
The current debate over health care has some people in a panic, and many of the concerns being voiced (such as the concern over granny-killing government death panels), are unfounded and irrational. ...
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The Great Hack

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Aug 13, 2009, 10:10 am
David Barnett posted a lovely etymology of the word
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Language in the Arab World: More Thoughts on Arab Literacy and Translation

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Aug 12, 2009, 10:53 am
As soon as I wrote the post, A Note on Arab Literacy and Translation, a number of issues arose in my mind, some in relation to the UN
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Going Public: The Evolution of a Common Term

Jonathan W. posted an article on - Aug 11, 2009, 9:20 am
Like most of our readers, I look forward to the weekly
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