Translation, Linguistics and Freelancing in the 21st Century
So it turns out that political change is not the only thing that has gripped the USA, and the world along with it. In this US presidential election we’ve seen a big change in how the candidates present themselves and how they connnect with the electorate. An unprecedented amount of money went into campaigning across
...If you haven’t already seen this yonks ago, for a bit of banal fun take a mini-break from what you’re doing and try this experiment with Babelfish over at Lost in Translation to see what happens when an English phrase is translated (by computer) back and forth between 5 different languages. The website also has
...The BBC news says that the Queen will be visiting the London offices of Google today. This strikes me as an unusual visit for a head of state, but I’m actually impressed that she has even heard of Google. It’s obviously a sign of just how important the internet is to our society that even
...My husband was surprised to be greeted by the above message when he logged into Facebook over the weekend.
For those of you who like me are slightly visually challenged and have to squint to read it, this is what it says:
“Do you speak English (UK)? Help translate Facebook into English (UK) so that it can
I’ve just returned from a short holiday in the Devon countryside. Living in London I tend to lust after the peace and quiet of remote countryside. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to be quite as ‘remote’ from my work as I’d hoped. I hadn’t quite managed to complete all of my translation jobs before going away,
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