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C’est un fair cop: Mounties throw machine translation
Today’s Vancouver Sun reports that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia have removed the automated Google translation from their website after complaints from franophones.
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Taking Translation to Clerkenwell Design Week
The signs are up, the windows dressed, the installations in place.“Clerkenwell Design Week” started yesterday and is set to finish tomorrow. Now that’s somewhat short of a week, but no less interesting for it as the streets are full of “design” of all sorts.
image: Clerkenwell Design Week
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It’s all Greek to them
One of our studio spotted a howler on the behalf of his alma mater. Cambridge University classics faculty has just opened a shiny extension building. In keeping with their studies, the doors have been decorated with a quotation in ancient Greek.
The quote is Aristotle, meaning “All men by nature desire to know”. Unfortunately whoever was [...]
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Indian Alchemy is no fool’s gold
A poster campaign caught my eye recently – for two very different reasons.
Posted in Hindi, India, Punjabi, graphic design 1 Comment
Seeking a French buzz
The extent that other languages are permeated by English is in the news again, with an interesting article in yesterday’s Independent: “France tries to halt march of English”.
The French government is keen to replace currently used anglicisms for 21st century phenomena with French-sounding words. This week saw the results of a competition open to [...]
New design for our translation blog
Regular readers will notice this blog has a new look. We have tried to keep a very simple look that is easy on the eye and hopefully a stimulating read.
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Oh! What a lovely translation design
I came across this picture gallery of classic movie posters, as part of a recent Guardian article called ‘The Story of O’, a diverting little piece about the letter O in type and design.
Designers would probably start thinking how about how the ‘O’ cleverly combines textual and visual representation to deliver a single message, as [...]
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Burns night: supper, poetry and an ode to a haggis
As a Scot – and an Ayrshire Scot at that – Robert Burns and his poetry have always been important to me and I’ll be raising a glass to his ‘immortal memory’ tonight as Scots the world over celebrate Burns night.
The unofficial national bard of Scotland (and voted the greatest ever Scot in a TV [...]
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Arabic typesetting: fonts of wisdom