Shanzhai and fangnu made it into the new Oxford Chinese-English dictionary. Two entries, 670,000 words, and a quiet record of what China has been worrying about.
Acrolinx, Asia Online, Clay Tablet and Milengo built a best-of-breed translation stack aimed squarely at SDL, and the seams are where it lives or dies.
Multilingual SEO is not translated SEO. It needs native keyword research, correct hreflang tags and real localization, and the competition abroad is far thinner than in English.
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More than 150 people applied to interpret the Geordie accent for foreign professionals in Newcastle, exposing a gap standard business English never covers.
Asian language translation revenue hit $1,312 million in 2008 and was projected to reach $1,516 million, with southern India's factories driving a hiring surge.
UK public sector cuts have wiped out state translation contracts, pushing language firms toward exporters chasing deals in China, India, Brazil and Russia.
Russian translation fails when it is treated as word substitution. Cases, aspect, register and culture decide whether the result reads as native or as machine output.
Villagers in Rockfield want the Welsh name Llanoronwy scrapped from their signs, arguing the council invented a translation for a place name that never needed one.
Talisman Theatre stages English translations of new Quebec plays, forcing hard choices about jokes, religion and how much culture a translator should carry across.
A Wakefield Research survey found 58 percent of Americans fear foreign workers will take high-paying U.S. jobs because the country cannot speak other languages.
Google Translate and other translation tools are powerful tools that can help people communicate across languages and cultures
Vienna linguist Nikolaus Ritt argues sounds and words are selfish replicators that use speakers to copy themselves, turning language change into Darwinian evolution.
Canada's first translation rights fair brought seventy publishers together to trade translation rights, the transaction that decides which books ever cross a language border.
Guía clara sobre cuándo necesitas traducción jurada: tipos de documentos oficiales, académicos, legales y migratorios, requisitos y consejos prácticos.
RIKEN researchers found Japanese infants stop hearing foreign sound sequences by 14 months, tuning their ears to native rules before learning words or grammar.
A whistleblower at Mission Essential Personnel says unqualified interpreters were sent into Afghan combat zones, and ABC News footage shows one of them inventing dialogue.
Pizza Hut became happy canteen and Bing sounds like sickness: why western brands entering China treat naming as transcreation, not translation.
The Best Translated Book Award longlist covered 19 countries and 12 languages, and its shape shows exactly which literatures get bought in English and which do not.
The research firm predicts language moves from back-office cost to revenue lever in 2011, with machine translation, crowdsourcing and video localization leading the shift.