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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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…
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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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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…
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In the first of a series about fascinating websites for language lovers, we will take a look at the site WordnikBeyond ongoing talk of machine translation, we mustn’t forget that the Internet also boasts a fountain of fun sites for word lovers. …
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A Waikiki restaurant has stirred controversy by applying a mandatory 15% tip to diners who don’t speak English.A friend of mine has a son who is a waiter in a Parisian restaurant – and he is always delighted to see Americans sit down to eat in …
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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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A new system that translates the names of Ottawa’s bus stops leads to some curious results.Since Canada is an officially bilingual country, all public communication must be presented in both French and English. Thanks to a recent initiative from Ott…
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Cross-cultural management is an endless topic, since every culture can be examined as it relates to any other culture. Have you ever thought about what type of managers Romanians make? I haven’t – or hadn’t – but the topic comes…
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