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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

Investing in Professional Translation Can Save You Big Time!

Professional translation services are there to offer a wide variety of customers an effective way to communicate with people that speak a different language, no matter who they may be.

July 21, 2009

New Multilingual Web Search Tool

Consider my mind blown. I was pointed to 2lingual.com the other day by a friend who shares my interest in multilingual information and I am still playing around with it.

July 20, 2009

Demonstratives in English and Spanish

Demonstratives are used to point to another element that they depend on to achieve their full meaning. If they point backwards, it is known as an anaphoric reference; those that

July 17, 2009

The Newest Grammar Hounds

Grammar hounds, and I include myself in this list, are those who are so obsessed with proper presentation of a language that even the slightest mistake or oversight in a

July 17, 2009

How to Abbreviate the United States of America in Spanish

Let’s clear up a few issues. The official name is: Estados Unidos de America. It can be written with or without the article: (los) Estados Unidos de América. If the

July 16, 2009

The Baltic Languages: Lithuanian and Latvian

Within the Indo-European language family are to be found the Baltic languages. The two languages of this subfamily that survive at present are Lithuanian and Latvian. Lithuanian is spoken by

July 13, 2009

Common Features of Languages

To begin with, a characteristic that is shared by all languages is that they are arbitrary, which is in its most elemental form is demonstrated in the absence of a

July 10, 2009

Armenian: an Independent Branch of the Indo-European Language Family

When the studying of Armenian began in the 19th century, it was believed that Armenian descended from Iranian, an error produced by the vast number of loans from that language.

July 6, 2009

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

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