A presidential word contest drew 2,123 proposals from 593 Estonians; the winner, taristu, replaces the borrowed infrastruktuur and enters the dictionary as a real Estonian word.
Posts with tag.: Terminology
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.
Machine translation is a triage tool in cross-border litigation, not a substitute for human legal translation. Where it saves money and where it loses cases.
Research reveals that some indigenous languages lack terminology to describe climate change (Kenya).
Africa Talks Climate found that many indigenous languages have no words for the science of climate change, leaving warnings unintelligible to the people most at risk.
Leeds researcher Serge Sharoff has £700,000 from the European Commission to build term banks that could reshape machine translation and language teaching alike.
Automotive translation covers manuals, diagnostics, contracts and marketing across dozens of markets, where a single mistranslated value becomes a safety and warranty problem.