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Old and new from India
From dictionaries to mobile phone apps, India is in the news.
First the old: ExpressIndia reports that the Sanskrit to English dictionary from Deccan College...
The Secret Language of … Elephants
The Elephant Listening Project is putting elephant sounds together with behavior to create an elephant language dictionary.
CBS’s “Sixty Minutes” just ran a segment (video...
Localization in 2006
IDC has offered its predictions on events and trends that will shape the IT and telecommunications markets in the year ahead in the Asia...
Language war
Translators are commonly imagined a pretty quiet bunch, a community of people sitting in front of their keyboards, day after day, worrying about how...
Cyril’s passport
In the same On Language column, William Safire cryptically ends on considerations about passports, computers and internet.
After mentioning current discussions on transliteration for administrative...
Nouillorque taillemse donne lailleque ze frentche?
A very strange On Language column in the NY Times about transliteration. After explaining why the actual phonetics of russian president Putin‘s surname do...
Localizing the business blogosphere
It is now banal to remind that never before in the history of mankind so much text and other content has been produced. Blogging...