Writing – Stella Bullo

Language, Culture & Society

Essays springing from personal moments of migration, family, and belonging. They explore how everyday life becomes a lesson in language, identity, and home.

Arremángate: Tracing a Shared Lexicon
Emotional Geometry
Private Grammars
Ni de allá ni de acá: Immigration and Acculturation
Quién educa a quién: Lessons in Motherhood from My Daughter
Me quiero ir a mi casa: If Only I Knew Where It Is
Who Are You When You Speak

Technical Writing & Applied NLP

Applied writing at the crossroads of linguistics and development. From building NLP apps to turning research into tools, these pieces show how theory meets practice.

Where Linguistics Meets NLP
Between Linguistics and the Scar
Why metaphors matter in NLP
Explaining Pain with Patient Metaphors
From Metaphor to Mechanism
Explain My Pain: Doctor-Ready Summaries
Sentiment Analysis App
Translation + Localisation App

Localisation & Intercultural Communication

Stories of miscommunication, translation quirks, and cultural distance. Each piece starts in lived experience and unfolds into reflections on localisation and intercultural communication.

Code Switching as Localisation
Misunderstandings Across Cultures and Machines
Communicating Interculturally Cheat Sheet #1: Localisation
Communicating Interculturally Cheat Sheet #2: Avoiding Misunderstanding
Me da lo mismo: Lost in Translation
Maybe Not Hit on Your Teacher: Social Distance in Language
“Have My Perfume” and “I’m Doing You a Favour”: Compliments & Rejections
Read Between the Lines: Requests in Family & Marriage
Have Some Cake, Have Some Cake, Have Some Cake: Rejections in Algeria
Communicating Interculturally Cheatsheet Series
Localisation and AI Ethics

Language & Health

Writing born from the language of pain and healing. Patient metaphors, research, and lived accounts connect medical communication with human experience.

Like fire in my womb (Spanish/English)
The Language of Endometriosis
Research archive on metaphor, pain, and expression. Includes Explain My Pain, glossary, and publications.