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Translation Industry News | 17.12.2009

Grammar goes global

Last week the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) – the Spanish language’s overseeing body – launched its long-awaited new guide to Spanish grammar and usage. Over 11 years in the making, it replaces the 1931 edition in an attempt to record and unify a language which is spoken by more than 400 million people worldwide in…


Translation Industry News | 03.12.2009

Going live! Real-time subtitling handset is premiered in London’s West End

The cast of the musical Hairspray were not the only ones to step into the spotlight when The Shaftesbury Theatre, London (in collaboration with Cambridge Consultants – the technologies and innovation group) launched AirScript™ – a pioneering handheld translating tool which allows audiences to receive live subtitles on a wireless handset. Following the success of…


Translation Industry News | 01.12.2009

Computerised marking scheme scores nul points with education professionals

Automatic language tools are always a hot topic and when news broke of an automatic marking system for English examinations, the debate was open for discussion once more. We are referring to the recent launch of the Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic), which is to be used by English-speaking educational establishments and companies…


Translation Industry News | 27.11.2009

Real-time translation tools – trusted texts or false friends?

Automatic translation tools receive somewhat of a battering, and that’s not just the sound of the keys being pounded! Even though these translations have significantly improved in recent years, wandering blind into the world of an unfamiliar foreign language is a path fraught with pitfalls and probable misunderstandings. So when search engine giant Google announced…


Translation Industry News | 24.11.2009

Fast Track to expansion: Internet equality on the horizon with arrival of non-Roman IDNs accessible from 2010

‘One world. One Internet. Everyone connected’. Language matters are hitting the headlines once more with the news of a move which will open up the Internet to millions of users worldwide. Presently, internationalized domain names (IDNs) are only available in 37 Latin characters – the letters A to Z, numbers 0 to 9 and the…


Translation Industry News | 17.11.2009

Vive la vernacular!

Collins – the dictionary giant – has recently been on a quest to save endangered dialect words for possible inclusion in future editions of their English language dictionaries. Any living language is a constantly evolving entity, which inevitably means that some words fall by the wayside, replaced by new arrivals on the lexical scene. Enter…


Translation Industry News | 11.11.2009

Twitter spreads its wings

Tweeting has never been so popular and this month, Twitter – the ‘microblogging’ site which took the world by storm – unveiled its Spanish-language version. Back in October, Twitter invited Spanish speakers to translate their website and thanks to the flurry of eager translators (working hard over a period of just one month) the site…


Translation Industry News | 05.11.2009

Extreme localisation

First there were extreme sports, now it seems that extreme localisation is pouring over into the world of translation. We are referring to the story reported last week that Spar, the food retail giant, have decided to pilot a scheme in which local slang is being used on the descriptive labels of certain bottles of…


Translation Industry News | 23.10.2009

Will the new iPhone translation app give you the full picture?

Another day, another ingenious new iPhone application. The new PicTranslator app promises to take the pain out of travelling abroad by allowing people to translate signs and menus simply by capturing them on the iPhone camera. A really clever and no doubt useful tool – but we would offer a word of warning. However good…


Translation Industry News | 08.10.2009

Fall of the pound raises export opportunity

With talk of the continuing fall of sterling, it is great to see so many UK businesses turning the gloomy economy to their advantage and making the most of their export opportunities.The Bank of England’s latest quarterly bulletin suggested that the credit crisis may result in a prolonged fall in the value of the pound…


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