When speaking of grammatical genders, one might wonder what grammar has to do with sex. Not much, to be honest. The original meaning of ‘gender’ was ‘race’, ‘type’ or ‘kind’
Read MoreThe Oxford comma is an optional comma that clarifies the meaning of a sentence, and is also known as the serial or Harvard comma.
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Read MoreHave you ever wondered why there are three different concepts for one word in the English language, for instance weird, odd and strange? This is because native and foreign terms co-exist in English: weird derives from Old English, odd from Old Norse and strange from Old French.
Read MoreIt is impossible to provide an accurate word count for the English language. However, it is safe to say that The Oxford English Dictionary contains over 300,000 entries. According to a recently conducted study by The Economist...
Read More6 Tips For Global eCommerce Success. Many UK online businesses are becoming increasing reliant on global demand to increase profitability.
Read MoreThe German language, well known for its long words, has decided that it will no longer include its longest word in its lexicon.
Read MoreThe question of where language comes from has been an interesting, yet controversial issue for many centuries. There are two dominant theories on how different languages lead their speakers to contrasting thoughts and perceptions:
Read MoreClients witnessed a 20% increase in conversion when landing pages and ads were translated into the local language and a staggering 70% when their client’s websites were fully localised.
Read MoreMicrosoft Adds Klingon to Bing Translator. Microsoft has added the fictional language of Klingon to their Bing Translator machine translation tool.
Read MoreThe Festival De Cannes will start in less than two weeks and we thought it would be interesting to conduct some research into the best constructed languages in films and TV.
Read MoreGoogle Translate has announced that it has added five new to its translation tool, taking the total up to 70 languages.
Read MoreA British holiday-maker on a trip to Poland was horrified to find that one of the dishes on his menu was rather unappetising.
Read MoreIt is no exaggeration to say that knowing a second language, a foreign language, is more significant and perhaps more useful that it has even been in the history of humankind.
Read MoreThe world’s largest furniture retailer IKEA caused controversy this week: the pillow case Gosa Raps translates into English ‘cuddle rape’ when using Google Translate.
Read MoreYour international marketing campaign begins with laying your sites on new target markets for your product.
Read MoreAt TOPPAN Digital Language, the confidentiality of your documents is top priority. Our Secure Translation Tool houses sensitive documents in a highly secure online translation environment and eliminates downloads.
Read MoreThis articles explains the concept of transcreation, using an example video of the comedian Doc Brown.
Read MoreThe famous British science fiction television programme Doctor Who has been dubbed into many languages, for example German, French, Italian and Portuguese.
Read MoreImagine being the last person of your people to speak your language… With no possibility to pass on the wisdom of your ancestors, the cultural heritage, your way of expressing your love, your humour, your life.
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