Helping the World, One Translation at a Time
How did translation and interpreting companies give back and pay it forward over the past twelve months? Let us count the ways:
How did translation and interpreting companies give back and pay it forward over the past twelve months? Let us count the ways:
Monique Frausto | Posted 01.20.2012 | Latino Voices
I look back, and although I've had a hard time growing up not speaking Spanish, I don't think I would change anything.
Ann Brenoff | Posted 01.17.2012 | Fifty
"Amazing" may have reached critical mass on the annoyance scale. Lake Superior State University in Michigan compiled a list of words it would like to see banned this year "for misuse, overuse and general uselessness."
Food Republic | Posted 01.17.2012 | Food
If you haven't eaten your way across Italy yet, consider the advice of someone who has. Italian food varies dramatically from region to region, but you can rest assured that you will find pasta, wine, espresso and gelato wherever you go.
John Joss | Posted 01.09.2012 | Media
Our inability to express ourselves with clarity, simplicity and vigor is the death of effective human affairs. The light at the end of the tunnel is that we, if we care enough to speak and write properly, will shine.
Joe Kutchera | Posted 01.06.2012 | Latino Voices
With Duolingo, he hopes to solve two enormous problems for the developing world: bring down the incredibly high-price of computer language learning to nothing and improve the quality and quantity of online content in languages other than English.
Nataly Kelly | Posted 12.29.2011 | Books
As it turns out, learning languages is easier -- and more pleasurable -- for some folks than for others. In fact, there is a group of individuals who find the process so enjoyable that they take it to another level entirely. They're known as hyperpolyglots.
Sophie Keller | Posted 12.22.2011 | Women
The everyday language that you use is really important and can influence your personal habits.
Fern Siegel | Posted 12.15.2011 | Books
Arguing about proper English usage has been going on for centuries. According to Henry Hitchings in The Language Wars, verbal mistakes -- and disputes -- are legion, from Shakespeare's time to our own.
Zoë Triska | Posted 12.12.2011 | Books
"No offense, but..." has been a not-so-sly method of insulting people since (probably) the beginning of time.
ForbesWoman | Posted 12.09.2011 | Women
The ability to communicate effectively and confidently has a dramatic effect on our ability to advance our careers. Yet many of us fall into the trap ...
HuffPost Living, Canada | Posted 12.06.2011 | Women
You hear it every day. On the subway, in the elevator, on the sidewalk: girls making completely inane statements that are worthy of an eye roll. Until...
Zoë Triska | Posted 02.03.2012 | Books
When I was a kid, I thought great poetry had to rhyme. Poetry without rhyme was NOT poetry. It was filth, and I wanted nothing to do with it.
Barbara Greenberg | Posted 01.30.2012 | Parents
When we were teens we'd ask someone to hook up after school and it simply meant that we wanted to spend time together. Now, when teens request a hook-up you can expect some random entanglement of body parts to occur.
Wendy Strgar | Posted 01.27.2012 | Healthy Living
I remember childhood admonishments to say thank you and feeling more beholden than gratitude when I obliged. I wish instead, I had learned as a child the magic of appreciation.
Nataly Kelly | Posted 01.24.2012 | Culture
Although they might not know the name of these Native people, many Americans celebrate the Wampanoag each year at Thanksgiving. But very few are aware that the group's descendants still live on their ancestral homelands.
Posted 11.23.2011 | Books
Originally posted on OUP's Etymology & Language Blog With the arrival of the new Muppet movie, Kermit, Miss Piggy, Beaker, and our other felt frien...
Dori Hartley | Posted 01.21.2012 | Healthy Living
Almost everyone can agree that the word "love" is jam-packed with power and meaningful emotion, but what I find most curious is how we deal with it when it's sandwiched in between the words "I" and "you."
AP | By STEPHEN WADE | Posted 12.21.2011 | Latino Voices
GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- The United States and England are often described as two countries separated by a common language. So imagine the potential for...
Posted 12.14.2011 | Weird News
Speak like Yoda, did you? Two linguists say your ancestors did. New research published in the the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of...
Vicki Abelson | Posted 12.09.2011 | Women
Until a few years ago, I don't think I'd ever written a curse word on a public forum. Then I thought, to hell with that.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 12.06.2011 | Green
The average 'Walmart mom' may not necessarily care about a reduction in waste or greenhouse gas emissions achieved by removing the dimple from the bot...
Posted 12.06.2011 | Books
Facebook's Creative Director Ji Lee has an unusual habit: he stares at words until he can find their meanings hidden inside. The result is a witty, pl...
The Chronicle of Higher Education | Posted 11.27.2011 | College
I will always treasure a student's article about a Board of Education meeting that referred to "the Super Attendant of Schools"--an oddly apt designation.
Nataly Kelly | Posted 11.12.2011 | Politics
The government needs to do a better job of ensuring linguistic preparedness. However, as a society in general, America needs to overhaul its attitude toward language. And that starts with the people.
Nataly Kelly | Posted 02.07.2012 | Impact