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Language Statistics

• Quantity of living languages: 6912 • Quantity of language on the verge of extinction: 516 • Language with the largest quantity of native speakers: Mandarin Chinese • Language spoken

August 21, 2009

More on Dates in Spanish

Dates in Spanish can be spelled out in their entirety, written in a combination of letters and numbers, or only with numbers: a) It is not common for dates to

August 20, 2009

Diplomatic Translation Gaffe

Recently, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was kind enough to give us the latest example of how poor quality translations can leave an organization looking foolish. In this case, the

August 19, 2009

Language, History, and Politics

When is a language really a language, and not just a set of dialects? That is a difficult question to answer, and the Spanish language is a perfect case in

August 18, 2009

As established in the Real Academia Española, Spanish-speaking countries use, generally, the ascending order when they write out dates, i.e. day, month, year, with no commas separating any information: 31

August 14, 2009

Another Language Gap Bridged

For centuries humans have stared at their canine companions and worked at deciphering exactly what their barks and grunts could possibly mean. Often it is nothing more than “I am

August 12, 2009

Uses of the Word Senior in Spanish

I was thumbing through the dictionary of the Spanish Academy (RAE) the other day and I thought it would be useful to share the official accepted uses of the word

August 7, 2009

Ending Sentences with Prepositions in English

To review: English does not have an official governing body that dictates what is right or wrong. Instead, it is based on a set of standards and accepted truths as

August 5, 2009

Trusted Translations New Site

Trusted Translations announced the launch of its new site.

August 2, 2009

English: The New Latin?

English is the one language that can be found in every corner of the world. It is taught and recognized on every continent and its prevalence is much greater than

July 31, 2009

The Peritextual Environment

There is a big difference between competence in a field and encyclopedic knowledge. “Competence in the field” is everything related to the concrete information related to the technical aspects of

July 24, 2009

The Other United States

The official name for Mexico is: the United States of Mexico, as given by its Constitution, ratified on the 4th of October, 1824. In its strictest sense, and this is

July 23, 2009

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