LawProse Lesson #282: A short capitalization quiz
Capitalization rules may seem like the stuff of grade school, but they can be surprisingly tricky. Sure, we all know to capitalize names,...
LawProse Lesson #287: The plague of wordiness
Lawyers are so accustomed to their own verbosity that they have come to see the word verbiage as just another term for “wording.” In fact...
Being a Language Citizen
How can one possibly be a citizen of a language? At first glance, that may not make any sense at all. However, it is my endeavor to...
Numbers. They count!
Translating is mostly about words, but sometimes numbers come into play, and they need to be translated too sometimes! Numbers in...
Interesting Facts about the Mexican Constitution
A constitution is a nation's cornerstone that sets out all the basic laws and constructs. It also provides citizens with guarantees,...
Political science students volunteer with non-profit organization to provide free legal clinics to t
Several students in the political science department volunteered with a program that assists immigrants in obtaining official legal...
Doublets
In English grammar and morphology, doublets are two distinct words derived from the same source but by different routes of transmission,...
Bilingual Online Resources
Probably most of you have used Google Translate. Though it is far from perfect, you might have gotten some useful information out of the...
Signs. What do they tell us?
Our world is full of signs. They tell us where we are, where we want to go, what to do and what not to do, among other things. Many of...
Domestic Violence: Actions and Consequences
In all posts previous, I have focused on fairly neutral and uncompromising topics. I figure that it is more pleasant for me and the...
