Back to school: New rules for German
Grammar reform is now official in Germany. Andrew D. Blechman writes in The Christian Science Monitor that the reforms are at best unpopular among...
Numbers from Iraq: 310 and $5,000
A report from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) by way of ReliefWeb:
The Iraq...
Translators: Numbers from Iraq
Five thousand. Or is it seven thousand?
That’s how many Iraqi translators/interpreters work for the US military forces in Iraq, directly or more likely through...
Is there an interpreter in the house?
Translation and interpreting have been hitting the news lately, and not always in a good way.
In particular, finding interpreters for defendants, crime victims and...
Encouraging news
Social networking sites are doing more than we thought for language! Language expert and author David Crystal says that the internet “through blogs, instant...
Studying Irish at Cambridge
Modern Irish is now on the curriculum at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, along with the medieval version of the language. IrishExaminer.com reports...
MYOOPS and OCW
A recent New York Times story contained this startling statement:
“Lucifer Chu, a 31-year-old from Taipei, Taiwan . . . has become a millionaire by...
“The hottest jobs”
First, the good news: Translation was listed as one of the “hottest jobs” in the annual “what people earn” article Sunday (April 15) in...
Bilingual document to the rescue
Ian Austen reports in The New York Times ("The Comma That Costs 1 Million Dollars (Canadian)” published on October 25, 2006) that a comma...