A computer scientist is studying ways to express emotions in automated translations of Urdu.You may not know much about Urdu, but it is spoken by around 65 million people, mainly in India and Pakistan. It is quite similar to Hindi, and the two tongues …
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Here are a few of this year’s top April Fools’ hoaxes from the other side of the pond. With their significant time zone advance, European countries were pretty much finished with their April fooling around by the time US jokes were at pe…
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“Translate British” proposes online translations from British to American slang.All writers (and anybody who has ever travelled to Great Britain) know that the differences between British and American English go way beyond the accent. Vocabulary, …
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If you don’t have time to pore over word websites, Oneword is a perfect platform – it doesn’t have much time for you, either.You like words, and would like to channel your inner writer. But you don’t have the time, don’t have the insp…
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Medical language is difficult to master even in your own tongue. Need proof? Check out some online medical language quizzes.In our posts about medical translation, we often emphasize that medical translators and interpreters need to start by understand…
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Pennsylvania is reaching out to limited English proficiency speakers about a very specific problem: gambling addiction.Blogging about languages and language translation is a continual discovery. Just when you think you’ve covered it all, somethin…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The university’s new Master of Arts in Interpreting and Translation Studies is designed largely to meet the need for health care translators and interpreters. Wake Forest University has just announced the opening of a new Master’s program in la…
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