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Tower of Babel
Cafébabel's Post-truth Dictionary
Published on — by Phil W. Bayles
Lost in Translation: The strange art of renaming movies
Published on — by Phil W. Bayles
Spain is in a war of words against the English language
Published on — by Ana Valiente
Pokémon Go: Gotta catch 'em all, no matter your language
Published on — by Joseph Pearson
The lexicon of laughter: Europe splits its sides
Published on — by Joseph Pearson
How can German entice young language learners?
Published on — by Matthieu Amaré
Language vs Islamophobia: Why we should say 'Daesh'
Published on — by Marina Garcia Blanes
Winter is coming: Lost in a blizzard of European idioms
Published on — by Joseph Pearson
Barbarians next door: How Europe names its neighbours
Published on — by Veronica Monti, Cafébabel IT
The anti-smoking campaigns of Europe
Published on — by Lorenzo Bellini, Cafébabel IT
Forks, spoons and neckties: Rugby's international lexicon
Published on — by Matthieu Amaré
Swarms and marauders: the dehumanising language of migration
Published on — by Viral Shah
Much ado about nothing? Sweden’s new gender-neutral pronoun
Published on — by Viral Shah
Who's big on small talk?
Published on — by Katarzyna Piasecka
Exchanging Languages Through Books in Istanbul
Published on — by Melike Akova
Who? More? Humour: Lost in Translation
Published on — by Kait Bolongaro
Diamond geezers and golden balls: The metallisation of mankind
Published on — by Joel Lewin
Good friends: do you knead anybody?
Published on — by Ceris Aston
Pull the (Franco-German) wool over your eyes
Published on — by Matthieu Amaré
Czech Republic vs. Chechnya
Published on — by Manu Tomillo
German 'FDP' political party followed by Portugal’s 'SOBs'
Published on — by Katha Kloss
How to shut people up across Europe
Published on — by Valeria Nicoletti
Throwing in the towel
Published on — by Kathrin Faltermeier
Procrastination (...we'll find European idioms for it later)
Published on — by Ceris Aston
Tightening the belt
Published on — by Natali Lekka
European words of 2012
Published on — by Cafebabel ENG (NS)
Play gooseberry
Published on — by Katha Kloss
Bogeyman and his European friends
Published on — by Jorge M.
'Choosy' unemployed Italians
Published on — by Valeria Nicoletti
'Bomeur': stay unemployed, stay bourgeois in France
Published on — by Matthieu Amaré
What's in an Israeli name?
Published on — by Alexandra Belopolsky
‘Swag’, an intrinsically French quality
Published on — by Matthieu Amaré
Like a bat out of hell
Published on — by Nabeelah Shabbir
Untranslatable words of 'longing' across Europe
Published on — by Agata Agata
Builder’s bum
Published on — by Falk Steinborn
Beat around the bush
Published on — by Jaleh Ojan
Tax the lookers
Published on — by Matthieu Amaré
Colour of language
Published on — by ialeon
Bite your tongue, think twice and count to ten
Published on — by Jorge M.
Between a rock and a hard place
Published on — by Pauline Panchout
I wasn't born yesterday
Published on — by Jorge M.
In one ear and out the other
Published on — by Cafebabel ENG (NS)
Empty promises
Published on — by ialeon
I wouldn't kick him or her out of bed
Published on — by Falk Steinborn
Shitstorm
Published on — by Katha Kloss
Rain check
Published on — by Cafebabel ENG (NS)
Europe's merry month of March
Published on — by Aleksandra Strzelichowska