April 15 is National American Sign Language Day

Social Media Round-Up for April 22, 2016

National American Sign Language Day was April 15, and to celebrate it, the Burger King mascot broke his silence by speaking ASL, read about it here on Mental Floss.
The OED had a great article about laughing, crying, and showing disgust in languages around the world.
Our own Scott Herber coauthored the Legaltech News article “How to Ensure Data Security in Cross-border eDiscovery” with data privacy counsel David Moncure from Shell Oil Company.
Merriam Webster’s Trend Watch cleared up the debate about the use of the word “equivocate”.
We imagined wearing a real-time translator ala Star Trek after reading this article by David Arbesu on Alternet.
One man’s journey to learn a language was full of practical tips and was fun to read.
The helpful staff at Computer World explains the difference between localization and translation.
We wrote a blog post highlighting some interactive maps that show healthcare disparities between LEP populations and fluent English speakers.
Information Age had a story about machine learning, and how it technology-enabled language services drive efficiency in the speed and cost of translation.
Everyone in our office took Grammarly’s English grammar quiz (the entire marketing team were in the Grammar Elite!).
Popular Science taught us that Facebook may have been displaying translations to us (and you!) without out knowledge, for a while.
An awesome undergraduate team from UW won the national Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for gloves that translate sign language.