Laurel Wagers, Rest in Peace
Laurel Wagers, managing editor of MultiLingual died on February 13, 2010.
An employee at MultiLingual Computing, Inc. since 1998, Laurel quickly found a home and...
Mental Acculturation
The world flattens by means of technology, brand names, and apparently even psychology, according to the New York Times:
"Behind the promotion of Western ideas...
It’s all relative
What is wrong with the following sentence (other than the obvious heartbreak): “The thing is, is John just doesn’t love me anymore” ?
It’s the...
Making up language
Vanity Fair, that bastion of linguistic knowledge, recently published an article on the creation of Na’vi, a constructed “alien” language used in the upcoming...
Love by any other name
A rose by any other name would be as sweet, Shakespeare tells us, but not everyone agrees. An NY Times article sent in by...
Language — what we have in common?
Once thought of differentiator between humans and other animals, perhaps we are now learning that language is something we have in common.
The New York...
A Language Gap: Kurdish and Arabic
Recent reports from the Iraq Programme of the Institute of War & Peace Reporting indicate a continuing language problem between Arabic-speaking Iraq and its...
Lost in localization
Maziar Bahari was imprisoned for interview on The Daily Show.
Maziar Bahari is a Canadian Iranian journalist. He was interviewed by Jason Jones of “The...
Microsoft Word 2010 Translation
"Learn how you can translate entire documents easily with Microsoft Word 2010 Translation features by watching this quick tutorial,” claims a recently-posted video on...