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How to choose fiction names for characters

It is a complex task to choose the right names for fictional characters. All the unique ones are hard to choose, especially if we want...

May 14, 20243 min read

Picture yourself in a place where no one speaks your language: all the people talking will be noise to you, and, since you do not...

Apr 15, 20242 min read

Otesánek, a cautionary stop motion tale about desires and compulsions. A film review.

Apr 11, 20243 min read

If you are not a born and raised speaker of the language of the mountains, you are an akäts. This means that you could be from México,...

Mar 25, 20242 min read

I'm still tempted to write "Butterfly Valley" instead of "Where Days Repeat Endlessly" because that was the name with which I developed...

Mar 20, 20243 min read

Some decades ago, on the Peninsula of Yucatan, a young woman had to make the biggest choice of her life: what career to study. She had...

Mar 6, 20245 min read

This week, our word is Hózó, the Navajo word for "balance and beauty". Between one language and another, some words can often be...

Mar 4, 20242 min read

Did you know that some languages don't have a word for "goodbye"? This is the case for many indigenous languages, such as Nahuatl and...

Feb 26, 20242 min read