Translation, Linguistics and Freelancing in the 21st Century
Surprising news today from the US Census Bureau that Hispanics will account for 30% of the US population by 2050, a twofold increase. According BBC News:
White people of European descent will no longer make up a majority of the US population by the year 2042 – eight years sooner than previous estimates.
What will this
I read this interesting article on the Times Online this morning, taken from the Sunday Times. We all know August is the silly season for the media, and although this particular story isn’t ’silly’ in the traditional sense, it did strike me as a little bizarre (particularly in light of the daft reader comments that
...Over the past couple of days I’ve been reading about the (apparently inadvertently leaked news about Google Translation Center, and have been wondering what it really entails for the translation industry. I first saw a notice about the ‘leak’ on ProZ.com, and then read about it on cnetnews.com, and also today on the
...I’m going to be helping out at a brand new conference called ‘The Translator as Strategic Partner‘ on 22nd-23rd November this year. I know, I know we’re still only just entering summer, but the early bird catches the worm, as they say.
The conference is jointly sponsored by the ITI, the CIOL and ProZ, and the
Linguistic doom-mongers frequently lament the demise of the English language, complaining that standards are just not what they used to be, that kids these days simply don’t have a grasp of how to use language correctly, lack creativity, etc., etc. Human nature appears to have a natural tendency to assume that things gradually get worse,
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