The Linguist

@Linguist_CIOL DECEMBER/JANUARY The Linguist 29 OPINION & COMMENT Political manoeuvres. 1 Proposals for better Irish-language provision; 2 A failure to translate Covid advice; 3 English-only labels on disinfectant; 4 3,200; 5 The EU's increasing use of English, giving the anglophone press a "competitive advantage". High tech. 1 Called for UK Covid briefings to have BSL (British Sign Language) interpreting; 2 An AI model to weed out bias; 3 Adding UK regional words; 4 He wrote half of Wikipedia's Scots entries but doesn't speak the language; 5 Google Translate for Cows. Sporting times. 1 Gary Lineker after housing Rasheed; 2 Different rules in Spanish and English allegedly meant Real Madrid was awarded a penalty but not Athletic; 3 Improve their English; 4 A language exam required for Italian citizenship; 5 For not learning Italian after two years. Apt apps. 1 Call for "interpreters left behind in Afghanistan" to be given asylum in the UK; 2 Google Translator Toolkit; 3 Translate American Sign Language; 4 Help healthcare staff speak with Covid- 19 patients; 5 To aid talk about the pandemic in a "funny, educational and universal" way. On the page. 1 She won the International Booker with author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld; 2 The Guardian; 3 The last speakers died before it was finished; 4 Martina Navratilova; 5 They were reacting to the new Urdu translation and confiscated only the Urdu copies. Back to school. 1 Speaking will no longer be part of the grade; 2 It became their most popular course for students in Wales; 3 96%; 4 More than double; 5 Erasmus+. Who's who? 1 Bong Joon-ho directed Parasite, the first foreign- language film to win 'Best Picture' at the Oscars; 2 K-pop band BTS hosted Korean lessons during lockdown; 3 Samuel L Jackson encouraged Americans to vote by teaching swear words in 15 languages; 4 Reporter Mishal Husain recorded a health message in Urdu (BBC colleagues covered other Asian languages); 5 Britain's Got Talent runners-up Sign Along With Us promoted sign language. Embarrassing blunders. 1 Amazon Sweden; 2 An error in the English subtitles had Rangers star Alfredo Morelos accusing Celtic fans of racism; 3 It translated his name as 'Mr Sh*thole'; 4 They thought Bravus meant 'brave'; 5 It used Latin words but didn't make sense. Watch words. 1 To add new words linked to the pandemic; 2 It sounds like an English racial slur; 3 As Wuhan locked down, people shouted it from apartments; 4 In case the phrase, written only in Irish, was seen as political; 5 All native languages except Navajo. Newsworthy. 1 How Dan Brown's Inferno was translated; 2 10% according to a British Council survey; 3 For interpreting insults directed at Ortega from Korean; 4 BSL; 5 Hate speech: it said people speaking other languages "infected this once great island". What links… 1 Both found out they had used the Māori word for 'pubic hair' (huruhuru); 2 Released albums inspired by bilingualism; 3 Covid slang; 4 A change to the language of instruction: Mandarin will be used for certain subjects in Mongolia; Indian primaries will no longer use English; 5 Words added to the Collins Dictionary. Who said (and why)? 1 Piers Morgan after Peter Phillips (the Queen's grandson) appeared in a TV advert for state milk in China; 2 Novelist Elena Ferrante in a rare interview; 3 David Simon, creator of The Wire, after assuming olé tus cojones ('you've got balls') was an insult; 4 Thomas Piketty when told to cut 10 pages from his Capital and Ideology; 5 Elon Musk when asked what his Neuralink technology will do in five years. Across 1 Bird, and subject of a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. (5) 4 Language of South East Asia which uses an abugida writing system. (4) 8 The ancient language of Etruria. (8) 9 A now discredited name for the Sami language of Scandinavia. (4) 10 The French imposed a Latin alphabet on this language in 1910. (10) 13 The native word for Flemish Dutch. (6) 15 Language closely related to Czech and Polish. (6) 16 The first language of a Carioca. (10) 19 Piece of furniture taken from Arabic via Turkish. (4) 20 Place called Al-Nasira in Arabic. (8) 22 A neologism meaning 'aware of social issues'. (4) 23 A greeting, or an expression of surprise? (5) Down 2 Passively? The opposite. (8) 3 The French are moved by this flightless bird. (3) 4 Instrument enabling you to see far. (9) 5 European mountain range, possibly derived from the Latin for 'white'. (4) 6 A religious painting, or a pictogram on a computer. (4) 7 Latin soul. (6) 11 To change into gas or steam. (9) 12 Relating to mum and/or dad. (8) 14 Demonstrations. (3-3) 17 City and strip of territory of the Palestinians. (4) 18 A neologism describing a modern-day anxiety. (4) 21 Regret in the French street. (3) QUIZ ANSWERS (Questions, page 18) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Crossword no.27 Solution page 31

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