January 2010

One Step Closer To Native Web Addresses

by Richard Brooks January 25, 2010 Technology

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, aka ICANN, is one step closer to allowing the first Internet addresses written completely in non-Latin characters.

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Do Prairie Dogs Talk?

by Charlie Jolly January 25, 2010 Languages

Prairie dogs are small, burrowing rodents native to the United States, where they are often treated as vermin by farmers and ranchers. However, scientists are now discovering that these ground squirrels may have some of the most sophisticated linguistic abilities in the animal kingdom.

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Mel Gibson’s Next Movie to Be Shot In Old Norse

by Richard Brooks January 19, 2010 Languages

Mel Gibson is making a Viking movie. The movie doesn’t have a title yet, but William Monahan is writing the script, and it will star Leonardo DiCaprio. Oh, and the movie will be shot entirely in period languages.

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Day Care Aims to Teach Cornish to Toddlers

by Richard Brooks January 18, 2010 Education

Cornish toddlers can now learn the Cornish language through a Saturday day care program at Cornwall College in Camborne. The program teaches the tots language through play while their parents take an adult Cornish language class.

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Tensions Rise in Malaysia over How to Translate the Word “God”

by Richard Brooks January 11, 2010 Interpreting

People tend to perceive debates over translation as dry, scholarly affairs, but sometimes, disagreements about how to translate a word can aggravate existing tensions between groups, even escalating violence.

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Google and IBM Tackle Ambitious Translation Projects

by Richard Brooks January 11, 2010 Free Translation

You may not realise it, but the internet sites you see when you surf the web are limited by the language you are surfing in. So, there’s always a part of the internet that you are shut out of.

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