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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

Tony Bennett Video at St. Jude Gala Organized by Trusted Translations

On May 28, 2009, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, featuring special guest Tony Bennett, held a black tie, red carpet event to help raise funds. The charity event was organized

June 15, 2009

The Celtic Languages: the Richness of the Isles

As we saw in a recent post, Celtic languages are a subfamily of the Indo-European languages. The Celts were the first inhabitants of central-southern Europe, around the 5th century BC.

June 12, 2009

The Use of the Dash in English and Spanish

This punctuation mark is, in Spanish, the equivalent to parentheses, though it does have one function that differs: marking off asides that are suggestive, ironic, or emotional, and the effect

June 12, 2009

The Symbolic Power of Words

This blog is not a forum for furthering political agendas of any kind, and that is absolutely not the intention of this particular post. What I am interested in pointing

June 11, 2009

The Million Word Followup

As I mentioned earlier, the Global Language Monitor previewed the introduction of the one millionth word to the English language. Great publicity followed. They have returned two months later to

June 11, 2009

New Language Toy (Wordnik)

I was sent over to Wordnik.com yesterday and all productive plans I had were immediately dashed and replaced with “let’s see what it says about this word…” Wordnik’s purpose is

June 9, 2009

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