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Culture

Foods and the Places They’re Named After

Baked Alaska, Chicken Kiev, Buffalo wings . . . there are so many foods you’re probably used to calling by the names of places around the world, but have you

September 14, 2023

For Translation Buyers

What Is a CAT Tool and How Can It Help Your Organization?

Are you fond of CATTs? No, we’re not talking about the household pets with whiskers and litterboxes—for translators, CATT stands for Computer-Assisted Translation Tools. In this post, we explore what

September 7, 2023

For Translation Buyers

Does Machine Translation Hallucinate Electric Sheep?

Robots may not dream, but they do hallucinate. With artificial intelligence at the center of the media spotlight lately, the tendency of algorithm-based technology to “hallucinate” material has become a

August 31, 2023

For Translation Buyers

Transliteration vs. Translation

You say potato, I say ποτατο. Here we have just one example of transliteration. Well, what is transliteration? How is transliteration different from translation? In this post, we explain when

August 24, 2023

Languages

What Are Dead Languages?

“Latin is a language as dead as dead can be,” runs an old schoolroom verse, “it killed the ancient Romans and now it’s killing me!” Humor aside, this student jingle

August 17, 2023

For Translation Buyers

The Perils of AI Translation in Asylum-Seeking Contexts

Refugees find themselves in a singularly precarious, frustrating, frightening situation. They’ve been displaced from their home and are forced to try to gain admission into a foreign country. A country

August 10, 2023

Languages

Ancient Tablets and AI Translation

Translating between two languages is a matter of carefully constructing sentences which best convey the meaning of the original text. As such, it isn’t about a rudimentary word-per-word switch from

August 3, 2023

For Translation Buyers

Evergreen vs Trending Content: Multilingual

Are you content with your content strategy? Today, the content you offer consumers is just as important as the products or services you want them to buy. But what types

July 27, 2023

For Translation Buyers

Dialects, Ethnolects, and Sociolects

Why do we speak the way that we do? Examples of our particular language varieties are scattered everywhere throughout our everyday lives—whether we say you guys or y’all, soda or

July 20, 2023

Languages

Miamian English: What’s That About?

Language variation is an active process. As you travel from one corner of the U.S. to the other, you will see that different communities speak the same language differently. These

July 13, 2023

Languages

The Effects of Migration on Local Language

Language is never static—it grows and changes along with its environment and, most importantly, its speakers. With the global number of international migrants estimated at about 281 million (and growing)

July 6, 2023

For Translation Buyers

Is Bengali about to Boom?

From its earliest days as a trading lingua franca to the present day, Bengali has played a leading role in the cultural and economic development of South Asia. Its 200

June 29, 2023

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