MLA job listings stop falling but do not recover, leaving new PhDs in English and foreign languages fighting over a shrunken pool of tenure-track posts.
Wikipedia marks its tenth birthday by opening its first office outside the United States in India, betting that growth now depends on local language editions rather than English.
Lawmakers want every chain pharmacy in New York State to translate prescription labels, extending a 2009 city law after research found most pharmacists rarely translate at all.
New Joint Commission standards force hospitals to provide interpreting, turning a chronically under-supplied role into one of the fastest growing jobs in American healthcare.
Oregon endorses the national CMI credential and funds oral exams in five more languages, giving hospitals a single standard for judging whether an interpreter is competent.
Farideh Mahdavi-Damghani, the award-winning Iranian translator, visited Korea and found almost no Korean literature available in Persian, and set out to change that.
From Rihanna backwards French tattoo to a prison handbook promising an execution yard, the annual Jelly Donut Awards collect the five worst translation errors of the year.
English speakers still outnumber Chinese speakers online, but the gap is closing fast, and Beijing has banned foreign words in publications without a Chinese translation.