Google is known for encouraging their employees’ creativity to run wild. A new site called “Translation Telephone” is a good example.According to the Programmable Web blog, a Google employee, Pamela White, has created an online version of the pop…

By very good fortune a translation scam using Kwintessential’s name and brand has been exposed by an eagle-eyed translator.
The email was sent to the translator, who shall be called Mr X, requesting information for a large project.
Dear Mr. X
As translation office on the west coast of the US, we are looking for freelance […]

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In the second post of a series about top linguistic sites, we will examine the artistic word site “Wordle.”. A lot of word-oriented sites are all about information, but Wordle is oriented towards creation. Perhaps you don’t recognize the nam…

One of the Relationship Managers in our UK office came across a clever bit of global marketing from the people at AT&T.
US Consumers actually voted the campaign as “America’s Favorite Magazine Ad” in a  contest sponsored by Magazine Publishers of America back in 2009.  In the “Hands” campaign, created by BBDO, human hands are intricately […]

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John Yunker (of  Byte Level) will be speaking in a seminar on February 24th. The webinar is being hosted by Lionbridge. John will be talking about translation agencies (also known as LSPs) and what he has learned over the years as both a buyer and seller of translation services.
The webinar will be of interest if […]

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A new report by The Joint Commission reveals that many US hospitals face language service compliancy problemsA recently-released white paper entitled "The New Joint Commission Standards for Patient-Centered Care" points out compliance problem…

A Kwintessential Relationship Manager recently apologised to a client “for any incontinence caused” [rather than inconvenience].  Luckily the client saw the funny side of things as did the rest of our office. In honour of the typo we thought we would search out some of the funniest typos, examples of bad grammar, etc to brighten […]

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The Egyptian Revolution has brought to the forefront the role of social media in the modern world. Debate continues over the role websites such as Facebook and Twitter played in the movement in Egypt; however to what extent these websites played a role in the revolution is not important. What is important is that they […]

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Call me a romantic, but something doesn’t ring true about this pitch…I suspect (read: I hope) that myLanguage’s press release entitled “myLanguage Makes Love a Universal Language this Valentine’s Day” was intended to be a bi…

Two major language services associations have agreed to join forces to provide more member services.The Association of Language Companies (ALC) and The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) have announced the beginning of a joint collaborat…