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Are Bad Translators Driving Out Good Translators?

Are Bad Translators Driving Out Good Translators?

by Annie Pagano March 8, 2013 Case Studies

this is a guest post written by our partner company Interpreters and Translators, Inc. from Manchester, Connecticut USA Paul Sulzberger on his blog, The Translation Business, recently asked whether bad translators are driving out good translators. Paul’s posting tackles the issue of how the need for translation is growing steeply but the fees translators earn [...]

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Polish is England's official second language

“Cześć, jestem z Anglii.”

by Jonny Henchman February 4, 2013 Education

If you can understand that, chances are you are one of the 540,000 speakers of England’s new official second language. That’s right, Polish, has overtaken Punjabi according to the results of the 2011 Census carried out by the Office of National Statistics.

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New French Prime Minister’s Name Lost in Translation

by Alison Kroulek May 18, 2012 Politics
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Poor Jean-Marc Ayrault. The new French Prime Minister had hardly a moment to enjoy his new position when it was revealed that his last name, if pronounced properly, sounds like “penis” in Arabic. More specifically, it sounds like a slang term used to refer to the organ in the third person singular possessive form (i.e. “his [...]

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Arab Spring Social Media

by Tanguy July 12, 2011 Case Studies

We already know the importance of  social media in marketing, brand awareness and communication. Social media now has a major role in democracy and in the fight against repression. In the recent Arab Spring revolution people used social media to communicate about the facts, to organise struggle against tyranny and to raise awareness worldwide. The [...]

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In Italy’s South Tyrol, German Trail Signs Cause Controversy

by Caroline Mikolajczyk May 9, 2011 Politics

In this bilingual region, tensions over language have been there forever and the struggle over train signs in the Dolomite Mountains is once again the proof.

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Botched translation leads to tension between the US and Bulgaria

by Richard Brooks April 26, 2011 Politics

A botched language translation of a speech given by James Warlick, the US Ambassador to Bulgaria, at the  “Europe as a Global Actor” Conference last week apparently infuriated Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov.  And since this is the age of the internet, President Parvanov took his beef directly to Facebook. According to Novinite.com, during his speech [...]

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Translation Issue Puts Businessman in an Egyptian Jail

by Caroline Mikolajczyk February 14, 2011 Politics

An Egyptian-American businessman found himself trapped in an Egyptian jail cell last month, all because of a translation issue. Mostafa Soliman has dual Egyptian and American citizenship and owns an Egyptian health food company called Healthy Harvest. He claims his problems began when he went to Egypt to manage the shipment of a variety of [...]

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Translation Issues Between Presidents

by Caroline Mikolajczyk January 25, 2011 Politics

Chinese President Hu Jintao spent four days in America last week, meeting with US government officials and business leaders. Unfortunately, his visit was dogged by multiple translation issues. Read more!

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China Orders Chinese Media to Cease Using Foreign Words

by Richard Brooks January 4, 2011 Politics

China’s General Administration of Press and Publication has ordered Chinese newspapers, publishers and websites to stop using foreign words and acronyms. Find out more!

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Belgium’s Language Divide Affects Everything From Government to Soccer Clubs

by Caroline Mikolajczyk August 27, 2010 Politics

The divide between French speakers and Dutch speakers in Belgium has grown increasingly intractable, and currently affects everything from how well the country’s government does (or does not) function to coaching schoolchildren at a soccer club. According to the Associated Press, the KFC Strombeek soccer club of Grimbergen, Belgium has been officially banned from coaching [...]

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