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Multi-Language Coke Commercial Not Anti-Patriotic

A Coca-Cola commercial at the 2014 Super Bowl struck an immediate nerve with United States viewers. The song “America the Beautiful” is sung not only in English, but in seven other languages as well. Many people jumped on social media sites to criticize Coke’s…

June 30, 2016
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Is Anything Untranslatable?

Language experts argued about the idea of untranslatable phrases at an October 20, 2014 discussion about philosopher and editor Barbara Cassin’s book Dictionary of Untranslatables at the Institute of Public Knowledge. A report in the Washington Square News, New York University’s independent daily student…

December 7, 2015