Archive for October, 2009

Internationalized Domain Names Officialy Approved

31Oct09

An Article from NY Times reports:
By the middle of next year, Internet surfers will be allowed to use Web addresses written completely in Chinese, Arabic, Korean and other languages using non-Latin alphabets, the organization overseeing Internet domain names announced Friday in a decision that could make the Web more accessible.
In an action billed as one [...]

Crowdsourcing Translations: A Loss for Both Translators and Businesses

28Oct09

The use of crowdsourcing to harness the power of the masses to translate web content has become all the rage at behemoth social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.  In an attempt to make these sites accessible to a broader user base, the sites are asking users, rather than professional translators, to collaborate on [...]

English Words with a Spanish Pedigree

22Oct09

Over the centuries, Spanish has made a significant contribution to the English language.  When American settlers began exploring the west in the early 19th century, they crossed paths with an established Mexican culture that supplied the English language with a number of everyday words.  Merchants conducting trade in the Spanish-influenced Caribbean brought back not only [...]

Will 90% of the world’s languages cease to exist?

17Oct09

A program in BBC radio reveals the following:

An estimated 7,000 languages are being spoken around the world. But that number is expected to shrink rapidly in the coming decades.
In 1992 a prominent US linguist stunned the academic world by predicting that by the year 2100, 90% of the world’s languages would have ceased to exist.
According [...]

The Use of Neutral Spanish for the U.S. Hispanic Market

14Oct09

There is little doubt about the growing influence of the Hispanic demographic in the United States.  According to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Latinos comprise 14.8% of the population for a total of 44.3 million people.  What’s more, Hispanics are projected to account for almost 25% of the total U.S. population by [...]

British companies relying too much on the English Language

13Oct09

English may be the leading international business language and UK companies may still have a head start in the 53 Commonwealth countries where English is spoken, but the National Centre for Languages says that three-quarters of the world’s population speak no English and 94% of English [...]

Machine Translation or Human Translation?

11Oct09

CNN published an article explaining the different approaches from Google and Facebook to translating their webs. Below you will find some highlights:
Facebook aims to translate the Web using an army of volunteers and some hired professional translators. Meanwhile, Google plans to let computers do most of the work. [...]

Lunfardo: The Slang of Buenos Aires

06Oct09

Argentine Spanish is peppered with words and phrases from Lunfardo, a vast slang vocabulary developed on the streets of Buenos Aires around the turn of the 20th century.  Criminals and other shady characters looking to keep their activities under wraps developed Lunfardo by borrowing and twisting words from the melting pot of languages that surrounded [...]

Notable Hispanic and Latino Americans – Part II

01Oct09

Part II of our list of some notable Hispanic and Latino Americans, citizens or residents of the United States with ancestry or origins in Hispanic America.
Education
Richard A. Tapia selected for the National Science Board (governing board for the National Science Foundation) by President Bill Clinton.
Richard A. Tapia (born March 25, 1939) is a renowned American [...]




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