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Posts with tag.: Translation
Moscow’s Library of Foreign Literature wants an Institute of Translation, a House of the Translator, to push Russian authors abroad through better foreign translations.
New York must replace 250,900 street signs at a cost of $27.6m because federal rules found all-caps lettering is slower to read and more dangerous at speed.
The University of Pune is compiling the first Pali-Sanskrit-Tibetan dictionary, closing a gap that has forced Buddhist scholars to work through two reference books at once.
Google added Latin to Google Translate, announced it in a blog post written entirely in Latin, and predicted the results would be among its most accurate.
US demand for translators and interpreters kept climbing through the recession, with global spending on language services estimated at $26 billion a year.
The NYCLU says riders who speak little English are denied interpreters in transit court, a due-process failure that quietly decides cases before they are argued.
Discover why modern game localization drives global success, boosts player engagement, and increases revenue through cultural and linguistic adaptation.
A Pennsylvania county paid $5,500 for court interpreters in a year and is asking whether it was necessary. The breakdown answers the question better than the headline.
Two handwritten pages cut from Chamber of Secrets go on show in a Galloway bookshop. Rowling gave them to fund a Scots dictionary, which is the better story.
Cloud translation could let two colleagues talk across any language. Europe’s privacy rules decide where the recording of that call is allowed to travel.
Shanzhai and fangnu made it into the new Oxford Chinese-English dictionary. Two entries, 670,000 words, and a quiet record of what China has been worrying about.
Asian language translation revenue hit $1,312 million in 2008 and was projected to reach $1,516 million, with southern India's factories driving a hiring surge.
A whistleblower at Mission Essential Personnel says unqualified interpreters were sent into Afghan combat zones, and ABC News footage shows one of them inventing dialogue.
Beijing landlords near the universities are paying well for translators after losing tenants to language barriers, with one student earning 2,000 yuan on two rentals.
Russia is founding an Institute of Translation for literature, a grant-giving body rather than a school, after officials admitted translators had been left without state support.