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The longest palindrome in the Oxford English Dictionary is tattarrattat. It’s a word invented by James Joyce to describe a knocking at the door in Ulysses. And that means it’s not just a palindrome–it’s also an onomatopoeia! Onomatopoeias sound like the words they’re describing: pow, whirr,…
America is a nation of immigrants. We owe much of our country’s development to immigrants in history, and our culture continues to deepen in complexity and richness as more people migrate to America’s shores. In 2015, The US was home to 46,630,000 immigrants. In 2015,…
As a language services provider, we’re continually dealing with words. There are over 7,000 languages in the world constituting an incontemplatable amount of words and inspiring speeches among them. When you come to think of it, while knives and guns seem to be among the…
catastrophic translation mistakesTranslation can save lives. Any medical interpreter, including our President and founder Sean Hopwood, is keenly aware of this. With such gravity comes a darker reality, as well: translation mistakes can cost lives. And in some cases, catastrophic translation mistakes have caused unimaginable damage to…
Foreigners can visit or live long-term in Japan and never get over their fascination with failed translation and blatant abuse of English, especially if English is their mother tongue. This phenomenon of Japanese to English mistranslation is commonly referred to as “Engrish.” Japanese to English…
The mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart has continued for decades. It’s been 80 years, in fact, since her plane vanished into thin air, somewhere over the Pacific. However, in a new documentary by the History Channel, Amelia Earhart The Lost Evidence, experts believed…
If you’ve managed to break into an international market, you already have a lot to be proud of. But now you’re facing some new dilemmas. Mainly, language barriers that require business translators on staff to smooth any miscommunication. But how do you maintain effective communication…
You already know that learning a language is good for your resume, social skills and college application. But, did you know that learning a language can make you happier as well? Seriously, hitting the books, working on your app, or taking your online classes might…
It’s been 20 years since the first Harry Potter novel came out in 1997. Since then, the boy who lived has had quite a global reach. The series has been translated into 74 languages, more than The Hobbit, The Great Gatsby, 100 Years of Solitude,…
It’s not a fair question, of course. The factors are many. The characteristics that distinguish languages are diverse. And everybody learns differently. How can we pin down one that we all agree is the easiest language to learn? And yet, we must try. Something compels…
Have you ever posed the question of whether women make better translators than men? The gender issue often comes into play in many careers, maybe even all careers. You don’t see many women scientists, or mathematicians, just as there are fewer male preschool teachers and…
Have you ever looked at a foreign script and wondered why the letters look the way they do? Why is Thai so curly when Roman characters are angular? How did the Arabic script get such elegant, arching strokes, or the Hebrew writing system its compact…
