The language you speak affects your view of the world

Social media round-up for August 4, 2016

Don’t end that text message with a period, we’re being told. Why? It might make you look like a monster, according to this story on NY Magazine.
Translating compliance documents? The SCCE has this catchy mnemonic device: I.N.G.O.
Falling profits mean McDonald’s is going to put a lot more effort in localization. We think this is kind of exciting! Here’s the story at QSR Web.
Milka had to recall a bunch of Oreo chocolate bars in Dubai over a mistranslation that made it look like they contained alcohol, since Muslims don’t drink. QA is an important step!
When it comes to operating in multiple languages, ISIL isn’t merely tolerant of people who speak languages besides Arabic; it needs them, according to this QZ story.
Absolutely absolute spatial reference. For native English speakers, this concept might seem strange, and that’s because there it doesn’t occur in English. Superlinguo has the story.
Everyone’s fav popular science blog tells us why the language you speak affects your view of the world.
That one time when the body of Greek scientific knowledge was saved by being translated into Arabic, from BLQatar. This is such a fascinating period of history!
Techcrunch let us know this week about Outlier, which has been saving Chinese language students for a while, but which we’ve just now learned about. If you study the language you might want to look into it too.
In the d’Oh! department this week, the BBC let everyone know that two out of every five Britons didn’t know that Portuguese is the official language of Brazil.
Is Icelandic only the most well-known of the languages that may go extinct due to the dominance of English? PRI suggested that may be the case here.
And lastly, we learned on Language Jones this week that we’re not the only ones using #mindblown as an adjective. Or maybe we use it as a verb?