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Smileys sind die Heuschrecken der Neuzeit
(Smileys are the locusts of modern age)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 25.5.2014
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Emoticons are everywhere: in messages, statuses, and emails. They are supposed to indicate emotions and add nuance when something is funny or sarcastic. Humorous texts should need a flag to alert readers of their jocular intent. Communicating emotions through emojis shows either an inability to communicate complex feelings in writing or unwillingness thereof.
Image Description | Illustration of the author of the article.
Image Tags | male(s)
Jeu capeschel nout!
(I don’t understand anything!)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 8.6.2014
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | language threat, translation
Summary | Experts predict the digital extinction of ‘smaller’ languages online. The global lingua franca -particularly in the digital sphere- is English, and it will come to displace all other languages in the digital sphere. Many translation services (e.g. Skype translator) achieve better results when translating into English than into German for instance. Governments should fund the creation of online services in their national languages. The Welsh government has already set up a fund for the creation of Welsh online services while the Swiss National Foundation (SNF) has no such plans for the creation of Romansh online content.
Image Description | Screenshot of the movie Star Trek: Mr. Spock is holding a translation device.
Image Tags | male(s)
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