To CC or not to CC: that is the friction relational dimension the friction dispatch

Every Monday, a Mexican public affairs manager at a London-based organisation sends an update to her British peers. Same three people, same format, most weeks n...

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When your body says more than your words spatial dimension the friction dispatch

Most professionals preparing for a British-LatAm meeting think about what they are going to say. Very few think about what their body is already saying before t...

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What's The Loop System™ and why it works slots v. loops™

I built the Slot System™ first. The harder question was what shape the other side would take.

I kept coming back to something small: the difference between my ...

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When ‘now’ means different things temporal dimension the friction dispatch

There is a phrase that became a kind of shorthand during the pandemic years, when every meeting moved online and every delegation that used to fly into London s...

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Slots v. Loops™ & The Lasso Way musings

Ted Lasso is back, and I won't pretend I’m not delighted.

I remember watching the previous seasons and recognising my own work as a diplomatic interpreter in T...

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Why I Follow the Othello Principle musings

Confidentiality is at the centre of the interpreting profession and drives interpreters to guard the content of conferences, meetings, depositions, and medical ...

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What's the Slot System™ and why it works slots v. loops™

I moved to London in 2015 and did what any newly arrived Argentine in a new city would do: signed up for everything. 

One of those things was my local book clu...

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Argentine Spanish, LatAm, and why I sound like this latin america

People occasionally ask why the Spanish on this site sounds distinctly Argentine rather than what they call "neutral." The short answer is that there is no su...

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The much-coveted back effect musings

Over the years, I have noticed there is a very curious phenomenon that happens in every meeting or event where good interpreting is provided. I call it The Ba...

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