Rio state has put eight linguists on a public phone line to answer questions on accents, syntax and agreement. The anxiety behind the service is the real story.
Posts with tag.: English
Haryana Agricultural University will require overseas students to study Hindi. In India, a language mandate is never just an educational decision.
Vietnam’s growth is reshaping demand for Vietnamese translation services, and the agencies still using diaspora reviewers are quietly losing the market.
English translations turned Tamil and Hindi pulp fiction into respectable reading, and a $2.9 billion Indian publishing market is riding the change.
David Crystal says the web did not accelerate language change so much as expose it, and the texting panic collapses once you count the words.
The OED holds millions of coined words that never caught on, from furgle to wibble, and the reason they failed has nothing to do with quality.
Pizza Hut became happy canteen and Bing sounds like sickness: why western brands entering China treat naming as transcreation, not translation.
The Association of Spanish Language Academies says Spanish will lead the world in native speakers by 2050. Here is what drives the forecast and what it changes.
Emergency patients given a professional interpreter were four times as likely to report satisfaction, and the Annals of Emergency Medicine study points to safety gains too.
Arabic web users grew 2,000% and Chinese is overtaking English online. How Google Translate and human projects like Meedan are keeping the web readable.
From Roman Dacia to Church Slavonic, Soviet Cyrillic and the 2023 law that renamed it Romanian, the Moldovan language has always been an argument about politics.
Vengerian is the Slavic name for Hungarian, a Uralic outlier with 18 cases, vowel harmony and a focus position that machine translation still cannot handle.
Spanish has 500 million native speakers across 20 countries and no neutral default, which is why dialect, register and the subjunctive decide every translation.
Fifteen cases, consonant gradation, no articles and a verb that conjugates to say no: why Finnish grammar defeats both learners and machine translation.
Translating English is a complex task that requires expertise, cultural understanding, and attention to detail.