Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator

French 🇫🇷 to English 🇬🇧 sworn translator, Brit-born resident of 🇷🇪, traveller, diver, tea drinker.

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

RT @Wordbee: Did you know there are over 130 different creole #languages? Learn all about creole languages on the latest #TheInternationalBuzzpodcast with Catharine Cellier-Smart: https://t.co/49LxnKwEyE

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

🤔 Are #translators word weavers, sentence spinners, consultants, linguists, or word artists?
https://t.co/lr6dC4un2p
by @AlisonHindley

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

🇦🇺 The Australian Academy of the @HumanitiesAU's 2026 Medal for Excellence in #Translation was awarded to Dr Simon Luke Robinson Burke for the first English #translation of a 13th-century #Arabic text, 'The Principles of Religion', published by Brill
https://t.co/z6RqmXSInY

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

Booker Prize-winning 'Taiwan Travelogue' #translator Lin King is calling out publishing’s “relay translation” practices
https://t.co/ZgjWZnPX2t

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

🏆 ‘Taiwan Travelogue’ by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, #translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King, wins International Booker Prize
https://t.co/jj1Xv05FLn
via @PublishersWkly

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

The controversial meaning of the #Hebrew word 'timshel,' (originally spelled 'timshol'), the word at the Core of "East of Eden", has moved countless readers—and has also sparked debate among scholars
https://t.co/COL1wMf3uv
via @mental_floss

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

Is 'altogether' used more in 🇬🇧 English than in 🇺🇸 English? asks @lynneguist. And is 'altogether' used to modify adjectives more in BrE than in AmE?
https://t.co/7GU3n7cVR5

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

@gobigorgohome_2 @BBC_Travel 🇺🇸 The oldest recording of Louisiana’s #creole language, Kouri-Vini, has been published. The rediscovery of a forgotten recording from 1935 sheds light on a #language rooted in the state’s history of slavery & French colonialism
https://t.co/sV4C0kIKjE
by @leo_sands
via @nytimes

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

🇺🇸 Reclaiming the Louisiana #Creole #language, Kouri-Vini
https://t.co/mcydJIdNyt
by @gobigorgohome_2
via @BBC_Travel

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

🇺🇦 #Translating Ukrainian poetry’s “pure music”: a conversation with @sumriko
https://t.co/tzenRUX14I
via @worldlittoday

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

Interview with Grace Shalhoub - #French & English legal #translator
https://t.co/Nfvaisah2T

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

🇸🇮 Nearly 30 years of literary #translator training at risk in Slovenia
https://t.co/QhDK6hITfq
via @ChytomoE

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

😬 Lorsque quelqu’un manque un engagement, pourquoi dit-on qu’il nous a fait faux bond ?
https://t.co/U3dNfxCiNU

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

🚲 From dandy horses to boneshakers, here are 7 words for old-timey vehicles
https://t.co/4IbgNc8DRF
via @MerriamWebster

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

@multilingualmag 🇺🇸 2 months after widespread backlash, California Judicial Council moves forward with #interpreter pay proposal
https://t.co/xXNhMkQs5m
via @multilingualmag

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

🇺🇸 The Association of Independent Judicial #Interpreters of California (AIJIC) to oppose motion to dismiss lawsuit alleging court #interpreter identity theft
https://t.co/WUOMe4pmQe
via @multilingualmag

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‘Maxxing’ is https://t.co/TAAO0zlRo8’s word of the year: ‘It’s cooler than saying you’re doing more’. As all facets of our lives are optimized, the suffix has become inescapable - and experts predict it’s around to stay
https://t.co/YtFcXmJvuY
by @CantorMatthew

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

https://t.co/TAAO0zlRo8’s 2026 Word of the Year is…
https://t.co/DMZTSEwI0M

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

👍 How choice of #language changes which brand AI recommends: English-only AI can miss how recommendations change when AI answers the same buying questions in 5 different #languages
https://t.co/b7WymQ9JlE
by @moaiandin
via @sejournal

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

⚙️ Dire « en mode », c’est faire comme si l’humain pouvait se « régler » comme un appareil. Pourquoi parlons-nous comme des machines ?
https://t.co/hqD0CQc6kW
via @FR_Conversation

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

#Translator Pablo Martín Sánchez won the National Prize for Best Translation and €30,000 for #translating Georges Perec into #Catalan
https://t.co/V2LcxL4jml

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

🇳🇿 New Zealand police investigators misused artificial intelligence #translation tools numerous times in seriously risky ways, official documents show
https://t.co/tw7a45p0SL

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

🦟 From 'patio' to 'canyon', 17 #Spanish words we use every day
https://t.co/pPEEYJ9w0z
via @mental_floss

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

🤖"Take with food” vs “don’t take with food”?
🩺 In a setting where a #mistranslated word can mean the difference between an accurate diagnosis and a dangerous mistake, the consequences of AI #translation can be deadly
https://t.co/TjJxtReyCp
via @Slate

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

🇯🇲 Centuries of historical baggage surrounds Creole #languages. Micha Frazer-Carroll has vowed to overcome shame, and to connect with this part of her culture
https://t.co/dXiy8CiFM3