Mobile Qur’an
The Gulf Daily News reports that the first Islamic mobile phone, the ilkone i800, was launched in Bahrain on Wednesay.
The new product is the...
Reading matter
Barbara Cassin, a French philosopher working with a team of other Europeans, has just published VOCABULAIRE EUROPEEN DES PHILOSOPHIES ; DICTIONNAIRE DES INTRADUISIBLES. A...
Crosswords at the crossroads with il computer enigmista?
Nature reports that Italian researchers Marco Gori and Marco Ernandes have developed Web Crow, a program that automatically reads a crossword clue, then...
Translating the Bush-Kerry debate
Last Thursday’s Bush-Kerry debate naturally attracted a lot of linguistic analysis and comment as experts tried to open a window onto the soul...
New translation blog
Gabe Bokor has started a translation blog on the revamped Translation Journal site that should interest freelance translators.
It is oddly called ‘interactive’, since the...
Pronunciation (pronounced /prer’NUnsi’EIsh-n/)
Mark Liberman’s learned Language Log post on Italian pronunciation and how The New York Times journalists get it wrong inadvertently draws attention to a...
Beit al-Hikma 2?
Good news from the UAE, where the Ajman University of Science and Technology has just set up a ‘state-of-the-art’ Linguistic Research, Studies & Translation...
Belgium 1 and 2
According to a news report from Brussels, Belgium’s new Foreign Minister, Karel de Gucht, suggested on Monday this week that Flanders (Flemish speakers) and...
Paws up for the original Rex
A lot of people probably saw the announcement that speech tech developer Wizzard Software is entering its product Rex, the talking prescription bottle, in...