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The World Bank’s Language Policy

I never cease to discover new facts about the world that stun me to silence. Rebecca Harris at Foreign Policy recently published an article addressing problems that community groups in

July 6, 2009

The Use of the Period in English and Spanish

The period (full stop) is the punctuation mark that marks the grammatical and logical end of a sentence. The main difference comes from its greatest use in English. In Spanish,

July 3, 2009

Bloggers Unravelled

I’d like to briefly return to discuss the issue of the significant development that took place last month, culminating in the outing of the lauded author under the pseudonym of

July 1, 2009

Changes in Meaning: Evolution or Corruption?

Neatorama.com has posted an excerpt from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader highlighting different words and expressions whose meanings are not the same now as they were in the past. The list

June 29, 2009

The Real Origins of the Albanian Language

Albanian is a macrolanguage spoken by roughly 15 million inhabitants of the Balkan peninsula, mainly in Albania, located in Europe’s southeastern corner. The oldest book to have been written in

June 26, 2009

Contemporary Theories on Translation: Nida and Steiner

The translation process is defined as the operation of obtaining the closest natural equivalent primarily in terms of meaning as well as the style (attempt to convey the same meaning

June 26, 2009

Translations Influencing the Course of History

The act of translating a text can sometimes have effects that run much deeper than the agent in charge of performing the translation may be aware. All it takes is

June 24, 2009

The Slavic Languages: The Use of the Cyrillic Alphabet

The Slavic languages belong to the Indo-European family of languages. They are spoken in much of Central Europe, the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The amount of speakers tops

June 23, 2009

The Aryan Tribes: The Importance of Information

Today we will talk about the Indo-Iranian languages and localization services through a reading of a recommended article. At the beginning of the second millenium BC, the Indo-Iranian (relatives of

June 23, 2009

Two Different Internal Logics

In English, we use concision (many short words or phrases) as well as an economy of language (fewer words), the preference we demonstrate for the impersonal vision of reality (objectivity),

June 19, 2009

Understanding Shakespeare

No Fear Shakespeare is a service that translates the most difficult of languages most people encounter, the Early Modern English of Shakespeare, into contemporary English prose. As we have touched

June 18, 2009

Bloggers Beware

There has historically been a strong affinity between English law and US law, with Common Law precedents being considered valid throughout many stratums of the US legal system. After all,

June 17, 2009

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