Q&A Archives — Planet Word Museum The museum where language comes to life Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:36:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://planetwordmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-PW_Logo_BLUE_circle-2-1-32x32.png Q&A Archives — Planet Word Museum 32 32 From the Andes to the Big Apple, Keeping an Indigenous Language Alive: Q&A with the Quechua Collective https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-andes-to-the-big-apple-keeping-an-indigenous-language-alive-qa-with-the-quechua-collective/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:57:34 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=8182 With up to about 10 million speakers, Quechua (also known as Runasimi, or “people’s language”) is the most widely spoken Indigenous language of the Americas, and it is an official…

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]]> Choosing the 2023 Word of the Year: Q&A with Ben Zimmer and Kelly Wright https://planetwordmuseum.org/choosing-the-2023-word-of-the-year-qa-with-ben-zimmer-and-kelly-wright/ Thu, 18 Jan 2024 21:43:25 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=8015 Since 1990, the American Dialect Society has annually unveiled a Word of the Year — a newly prominent word that reflects significant events, societal shifts, and prevailing themes over the…

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]]> Singular “They” and Language Beyond the Gender Binary: Q&A with Kirby Conrod https://planetwordmuseum.org/singular-they-and-language-beyond-the-gender-binary-qa-with-kirby-conrod/ Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:18:42 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=7782 With nonbinary and trans identities becoming more mainstream, pronouns have increasingly become a hot topic — particularly singular “they,” which is favored by many nonbinary people. While singular “they” has…

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]]> Linguistic Diversity in D.C. and the “D.C. Dialect”: Q&A with Natalie Schilling https://planetwordmuseum.org/the-d-c-dialect-and-linguistic-diversity-in-d-c-q-a-with-natalie-schilling/ Wed, 24 May 2023 15:47:40 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=7116 Is the word “moe” in your vocabulary? How about “jhi”? If so, you’re likely a D.C. local! Like go-go and mambo sauce, these words are part of the lifeblood of…

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]]> The Book Doctor Is In: Q&A with Bookbinder Emma Kiely-Hampson https://planetwordmuseum.org/the-book-doctor-is-in-q-a-with-bookbinder-emma-kiely-hampson/ Tue, 09 Aug 2022 13:30:18 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=5839 All book lovers know that any day is the perfect day to sit down with a new book or an old favorite, but sometimes the realities of life leave our…

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]]> New App Banks on the Human Element of Translation https://planetwordmuseum.org/new-app-banks-on-the-human-element-of-translation/ Fri, 09 Nov 2018 05:00:00 +0000 http://planetwordmuseum.org/new-app-banks-on-the-human-element-of-translation/ We have countless machine translation options at our fingertips at any given moment, but many of these comically fail to capture nuance and cultural context. By bringing live, human translators…

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