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I Met My MP About the Words the Asylum System Does Not Keep
At 15, I took the case for original-language asylum records to my MP, Connor Rand.
Who Wrote the English? Teaching Translation Literacy in the Classics Classroom
TRACE gives teachers and students a practical vocabulary for examining translated choices, alternatives and consequences.
Awareness Is the Antidote to a Bad Translation
Reflective fluency turns awareness of a translator's limits into action before errors enter the record.
Naming the Shadows: Literal Translation and Plato's Cave
Students name the literal translation as accurate because it is the only thing they have been shown.
Translational Justice: A Bidirectional Account of Linguistic Harm
The source language is deprived. The target language carries that deprivation. The institution turns it into consequence.
Canada tests its interpreters. The UK doesn't
Canada's accreditation test exposed a problem the UK has never measured.
The Home Office Is Using AI on the Wrong Document
The AI summary starts from the wrong file. The transcript is already an interpretation.
What the Government's Own Inspectors Found About Asylum Interpretation
Interpreter demand, cancellations, dialect mismatch, missed quality checks, and the fix the system still avoids.
What a Dolphin Taught Me About Translation
A Latin classroom, Pliny's ministeria, and the gap a translation can hide.
What the Translation Killed
Six words from Pliny Letters 9.33. Six translation decisions a student never sees.
Why Translation Errors Can Affect UK Asylum Claims
Procurement, qualifications, dialect, and the missing original record.
Building RECORD
How the board game prototype makes interpretation failure hard to look away from.
The Record of a Procurement Chain
Interpreter procurement, evidence, and the language conditions behind inconsistency findings.
The Access to Justice Problem in Asylum Interpretation
Access to justice depends on whether the record captures what the applicant said.
The Invisible Variable
Interpreter quality is the variable the system does not track.
Singlish, Autocorrect, and the Erasure of Particles
How correction systems erase particles, then call it improvement.
The Token Tax
Same meaning. More tokens. Higher cost.
Beyond the Transcript
VR and WebXR make meaning collapse visible.
The Beast
What translation does to meaning. What loss gets dressed up as.
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