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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Assembling a Welsh Translation Row
The use and equality of the Welsh language have long inspired passions, and a long-running campaign seems to have reversed its decline. Today, in an apparent partial victory for bilingualism and the equal use of the Welsh language in Wales, the Assembly Commission has backed off plans to scrap the translation of debates from English [...]
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War of the World’s Machine Translation
Google’s recent spate of strange logos on their search pages have now been revealed as a homage to author H. G. Wells, whose birthday it is today. All credit to them for highlighting such an interesting author who was often ahead of his time.
Google has been engaged in a more down to Earth battle with [...]
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An "International Translation Day 2009" greeting card for you
September has rolled around all too quickly, and our summer’s coming to an end … even though in London yesterday we had that British rarity of a sunny and hot Bank Holiday Monday afternoon!
Regular readers of this blog will know that September is also the month of International Translation Day. The day itself isn’t for [...]
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European Day of Languages 2009