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From Translation’s Edges

Language as Refuge
By Veronica Esposito
March 2025
Veronica Esposito
Photo of New York City by Kevin / Stock.adobe.com What is lost when a language dies? Our columnist considers the loss of languages across time and wonders what it would look like to re-Babel th…
Toki Pona
By Veronica Esposito
January 2025
Veronica Esposito
Illustration by William Wallace Denslow from The Wizard of Oz, 1900 / Wikimedia Our columnist looks at the smallest language on earth—both deliberately simple and full of ambiguity—and…

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