English translations turned Tamil and Hindi pulp fiction into respectable reading, and a $2.9 billion Indian publishing market is riding the change.
David Crystal says the web did not accelerate language change so much as expose it, and the texting panic collapses once you count the words.
India has chased UN status for Hindi since 2003, but the cost, the two-thirds majority and its own southern states all stand in the way.
Interpreters-on-Call sells vendor-neutral telephony by the minute, removing the one barrier that kept small agencies out of over the phone interpretation.
MBC and Showtime Arabia abandoned classical Arabic subtitles for dubbing, because 70 million people in the region could not read the words on screen.
The OED holds millions of coined words that never caught on, from furgle to wibble, and the reason they failed has nothing to do with quality.
Acrolinx, Asia Online, Clay Tablet and Milengo built a best-of-breed translation stack aimed squarely at SDL, and the seams are where it lives or dies.
UK public sector cuts have wiped out state translation contracts, pushing language firms toward exporters chasing deals in China, India, Brazil and Russia.
Vienna linguist Nikolaus Ritt argues sounds and words are selfish replicators that use speakers to copy themselves, turning language change into Darwinian evolution.