Language

Translations Key to Human Understanding

Have you heard of the game in which a simple message is passed from ear to ear that at the end of the line the message is lost in translation? In our world, passing down sacred text from generation to generation is as hard if not harder.

Translations of ancient text are critical in human understanding of not only our past, but also our future selves.

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Language

Conquering Foreign Words Help Shape Language

In France, the Académie Française is responsible for protecting the purity of the French language from foreign influences. Other countries are also singularly protective of their cultural languages.

However, due to the increasingly free flow of information across the Internet’s world wide web, this is increasingly hard to do.

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