Working Out Context in the Enterprise: Localize That!
I just came across an interesting terminology issue for enterprise applications' user experience and localization, generally. What should we call the people in an...
Correct Youse of English: Your Personal Dialect Map Is Here
Thought I was done with regional English? No chance.
The Irish Times recently predicted that the phrase “you guys” will soon be accepted as the...
DARE to be HyperLocal: Context and Language at the Mall
I love this piece about regional language preferences from the San Francisco Chronicle blog, “Which Words Are Special to Californian?”. It offers us a...
Augmented Reality Translation and Wearables: Sit Up and Take Notice
About three years ago on Blogos, I wrote about the Visual Quest Word Lens app. I wrote that "there was a lot more than...
Localizing Wearables, Schmerables: If Google Glass Had Italian Stylists
Done with Big Data? Kicked Statistical Machine Translation to the kerb (or "curb", if you're in the U.S.)? Nodded off during those discussions about...
How DO Startups "DO" Localization?
I asked the audience after my coffee, context and crapplications talk to the International Multilingual User Group (IMUG) in San Jose, California recently, if anyone...
Et Vous, @Brute?
Great article, courtesy of the BBC News online magazine, called Tu and Twitter. It is the end for 'Vous' In French? highlights the social...
Being Jesuitical About Translation Subjects
I recently found out about www.sacredspace.ie, a multilingual, Drupal-based, prayer website run by the Irish Jesuits (or to be more correct, the religious order of...
How to Use the HTML5 Translate Attribute: A Translatability Best Practice
HTML5 introduces a translate attribute that allows fine-grained control over what content should be translated, or not. Richard Ishida of the W3C has all...