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Communicating for the ALC

by Jonny Henchman April 23, 2013 International

As part of our continued drive to increase co-operation between language companies, we worked alongside Dynamic Language in Seattle to provide an information delivery system for the Association of Language companies (ALC) of which we are both members. Our aim, and that of the ALC, is to improve quality and systems within the translation industry [...]

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No Hashtags, Please, We’re French

by Alison Kroulek January 30, 2013 Languages
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In recent years, the guardians of the French language have had trouble keeping up with the influx of English-language loanwords from the tech world. Buzzwords like “cloud computing” and services like Twitter and Facebook leave an unmistakable, and unmistakably English, impact on the language.

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London’s Languages, Mapped in Tweets

by Alison Kroulek October 28, 2012 Languages
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With more than 300 languages spoken, London is truly a diverse city. But what does that diversity look like on a map? To find out, two researchers from University College London used Twitter to visualize the city’s many languages via its tweets. You can see a screenshot of the result above, but I recommend clicking [...]

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Twitter Translation Center Adds More Languages

by Alison Kroulek July 7, 2012 Translation
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Twitter has been using a crowdsourced translation model to publish the site in languages from around the world. As of this week, the total has risen to 30 with the addition of Ukrainian and Catalan. Ukrainian is spoken by 37.5 million Ukrainians and an additional 3.5 to 7.5 people outside of the country. Catalan is [...]

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Aer Lingus Halts “Language Tests”

by Alison Kroulek March 16, 2012 Languages
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Beware of Greeks bearing passports. Until just last week, that’s the attitude that Air Lingus often displayed towards its Greek customers, especially Greek nationals flying into Ireland through Spain and Portugal. To try to catch people traveling on falsified Greek passports, Greek passengers were asked to complete a language test to prove they were fluent [...]

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New Languages Take Tweets in Another Direction

by Alison Kroulek March 13, 2012 Twitter
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Twitter added four new language options to its translation repertoire last week: Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. Like the other languages that the popular online messaging service has been translated into, the task was crowdsourced to volunteers via Twitter’s translation center, allowing it to be completed in just a couple of months. Twitter described the [...]

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Twitter: the New Haiku?‎

by Richard Kazandjian August 9, 2011 Languages

Twitter, the microblogging social network that limits users to “tweets” of 140 characters or less, is growing across the globe. However, communicating with the world in 140-character bursts has really taken off in Japan, especially after the earthquake and its accompanying tsunami earlier this year. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Twitter’s Japanese membership increased [...]

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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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Indigenous Tweets Collects Minority Language Tweets

by Caroline Mikolajczyk April 21, 2011 Twitter

Despite Twitter’s recent efforts at making the site more usable for non-English speakers, it’s probably one of the last places you’d expect to find people using minority and endangered languages to communicate. However, as a new website called Indigenous Tweets illustrates, that’s clearly not the case.

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US Scientists Developing Program to Translate Middle Eastern Tweets

by Caroline Mikolajczyk April 14, 2011 Twitter

The popularity of microblogging service Twitter has spread across the globe, and the US government has taken notice. Twitter was one of the earliest means of communication for the Egyptian protestors, and could potentially be used to gain insight into what ordinary people in the Middle East and South Asia are thinking and feeling.

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