Ontario had one accredited Arabic court interpreter, so the Crown asked to sever a murder trial. A tougher accreditation test shrank the workforce instead of improving it.
A practical guide to website translation services, from why translating your site matters to machine versus human translation, ecommerce stores, and where to start.
Senate Bill 2639 would force foreign-language signs in the Philippines to carry a Filipino or English translation. Mandating a translation is not the same as mandating a good one.
St Stephen's College opened a Centre for Translations to move academic and cultural texts between India's languages, and to train the translators who would do it.
Georgia placed a thousand native English speakers in its schools to displace Russian as the second language. A decade on, here is what survived and what did not.
Thailand tried to grow Thai Wikipedia with statistical machine translation. The idea was right and the mechanism was wrong, for reasons every localization team now recognises.
USP proposed prescription labels in plain language, larger type and the patient's preferred language. The 'once' problem shows why a bad translation is worse than none.
Estimates of the translation market span a tenfold range because nobody agrees what to count. What is not disputed is why it exists, or which tiers automation actually took.