From Rihanna backwards French tattoo to a prison handbook promising an execution yard, the annual Jelly Donut Awards collect the five worst translation errors of the year.
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English speakers still outnumber Chinese speakers online, but the gap is closing fast, and Beijing has banned foreign words in publications without a Chinese translation.
The Assembly Government is expanding its Welsh translation unit and upgrading posts while the rest of the public sector shrinks, drawing fire from taxpayer campaigners.
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Twelve EU states move to create a unitary patent through enhanced cooperation, granting in English, French or German and breaking a decade-long deadlock over language.
Whitehall and the justice system spent 140 million pounds on translation last year, up 40 per cent in two years despite a cost-cutting drive, reigniting the language test row.
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.
Foreign governments and foundations are funding their own way into the US book market, tackling the 3 percent problem that keeps translated literature off American shelves.
An American indie bookseller launched an Against Amazon blog while serving as a judge for the Best Translated Book Award, which Amazon now funds with a 25,000 dollar grant.
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.
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The Commission's Directorate-General for Translation opened a public platform to collect hard data on an industry that had never properly counted itself.
Executive departments spent almost £200,000 translating documents into Irish and Ulster Scots. The row that followed was never really about the money.
Long Beach cut the Spanish simulcast of council meetings, then told housing advocates the promised interpreters were not available either.
Google's Mustafa Icil described two systems, speech-to-text and text translation, and the plan to bolt them together into live spoken translation.
How Joint Commission accreditation standards turned medical interpreting from a hospital courtesy into a reimbursement-linked patient-safety requirement.