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9 common words with surprising aviation origins 24 Aug 2013 | 01:57 am
By Angela Tung, Wordnik Earlier this week was National Aviation Day, which celebrates the field of aviation and the birthday of airplane innovator Orville Wright. Inspired by this we decided to explo...
13 Funny Foreign Hotel Sign Fails 15 Aug 2013 | 09:55 pm
Hotels go out of their way to please their guests. This is normally great for the guests, but can leave them a bit confused when they extend beyond their language boundaries. The following is a list...
You literally don’t need to take ‘literally’ literally 15 Aug 2013 | 12:53 am
After years of misuse the Oxford English Dictionary gives in and changes word’s meaning By Anna Edwards It’s enough to make Oxford English Dictionary readers want to throw their book out of the wind...
Facebook to buy firm specializing in voice translation 14 Aug 2013 | 02:19 am
Facebook has agreed to acquire Mobile Technologies, a firm specializing in voice translation software, the two companies said Monday, without providing financial details of the transaction. Founded i...
Translation Cloud Now Provides a Free Website Translator Plug-in for Website Owners 9 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm
Translation Cloud, the award-winning translation company now offers a website translation tool to allow website owners to go global for free. Translation Cloud has recently released a free plug-in fo...
Improve your English: Oxford dictionaries going bilingual, to be available in Malayalam, Punjabi, and Assamese 8 Aug 2013 | 12:36 am
by Dailybhaskar.com The first Oxford English Dictionary was out in 1884. But now English Dictionaries face a threat from digitisation. The publishers have already indicated that they will not go for ...
The Hidden Costs of Cheap Translation 7 Aug 2013 | 02:18 am
By Neil Payne More and more of us need translation solutions for our businesses. The development of the global economy means we are increasingly working across language barriers. We may buy goods fro...
Cloud Atlas author is rare novelist-translator 2 Aug 2013 | 09:49 pm
by Hillel Italie (AP) The latest book project for Cloud Atlas novelist David Mitchell was released in England this summer to excellent reviews and strong sales, reaching the top 10 on Amazon.com. Th...
Deaf man sues hospital due to lack of translator 31 Jul 2013 | 12:52 am
By Michelle Keahey, East Texas Bureau A deaf man has filed a lawsuit against a Tyler medical center for failing to provide an interpreter so that he could be informed about the medical status of his ...
Funny Video Friday: Steve Carell 19 Jul 2013 | 07:47 pm
It’s Friday, so for the latest installment of funny videos, I present to you Language Lessons with Steve Carell. Language Lessons with Steve Carell – watch more funny videos
