Musings of the Mad Wordsmith (and other things)

Here is an excerpt from a recent interview with Mark Tappling , the CEO of L anguage Weaver , a venture-backed firm which develops languag...

Boston Globe interviewed Marian Schwartz, the Austin-based acclaimed translator of Russian fiction, history, biography, and criticism. Her ...

Back to Dr. David Harrison and endangered languages - Harrison believes language revitalization will be one of the most important trends in...

I wrote about the Meedan Project just a few weeks ago. The site has been launched, and although the translations are not brilliant, they ar...

Hard to believe, but it seems that it could be true. In United Arab Emirates, 80% of the population are expats, and Arabic is trailing behin...

The British Guardian asks if the spirit of the original religious text can be adequately conveyed in a different language. Alexander Goldbe...

Jeffrey Henning of VoVici has a series of excellent articles about preparing multilingual surveys and questionnaires. He does not start at ...

"Multilingualism, which can be defined as the harmonious accommodation of different languages spoken within a common space, therefore b...

L.D. Mitchell (book collector, professional librarian, author, photographer) did everyone a great favour by posting a ten part introduction...

To learn more about the newest gadgeting Google is doing, read their blog ! For all your English to Arabic and vice versa translations that ...

(MENAFN - Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Media figures and field experts called Wednesday for protecting the elements of the Arabic language, as...

Very sad indeed. CNN reported on February 5 th the death of Boa Sr, 85, the last speaker of Bo. the language which she grew up with, which...

From the Globalisation Group - a hooter as usual: A few months ago, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was released and began setting numerous ...

Changes to be made to the ProZ.com job posting system "Huge movement, the biggest yet seen in this profession.. thousands of people sup...

The 2010 Best Translated Books: Ghosts, by César Aira (Argentina) Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews The Twin, by Gerbrand Bakker ...

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed minimum standards for interpretation and translation for suspects standing trial in a country where the...

I remember a discussion a few years ago with one of my colleagues from Cairo, a high caliber Arabic English translator, about the English ve...

I am not into sport at all, but the following article is about what motivates people to learn another language. Tommy Manzella is a US bas...

The typical translator's status can be likened to a ghost writer's — an appendage obscure and underpaid. Like ghost writers, they of...

Is your company doing business with the Arab world? The Google CEO, on a visit to Riyadh, predicted that the Kingdom would have a bright fut...