TranslationOriginal Source: The Standard, Hong Kong A few days ago newspapers carried a rather strange case of a theft being reported. The matter involved two people who knew each other and one of them alleged that the other had stolen something of his. The matter ended with the two protagonists settling the…

TranslationYOLO! For those living in a bubble the past few months, this phrase stands for ‘You Only Live Once’, and has become a popular slogan amongst teenagers in America (of course now that it’s popular it will be slowly dying out soon).  So I’m making the most of it by writing a blog post about…

TranslationI thought I would introduce a new tradition to this site called Funny Video Friday, which showcases a funny clip from a movie, tv show, commercial, etc. featuring language. To start this off, I’m including a clip from the classic British television show, Fawlty Towers. If you have suggestions for future videos, please feel free…

TranslationGuest Post by Christina Chandler is an enthusiastic poet and writer with a degree in English Education. She has spent a year in India and two years in Japan teaching English as a second language. She now continues towards her postgraduate degree in Higher Education. It doesn’t really matter where you came from or what…

Translationby Shona Ghosh, PC PRO Amazon’s failure to support Welsh on the Kindle has sparked a row over the firm’s language restrictions. Welsh publisher Y Lolfa has launched a petition calling on Amazon to support Welsh after the retail giant said it was unable to support the language. Up until recently, Y Lolfa was able to list its Welsh books…

TranslationSource by Sara Malm, Daily Mail Swedish furniture giant IKEA has been left red-faced after the name of one of their products was translated into something less than appropriate. A customer put the name of $44.99 pillow Gosa Raps into Google Translate which interpreted it as ‘Cuddle Rape’. The translation of Raps, the Swedish word…

TranslationYes, language can be a pretty remarkable yet funny thing sometimes.  For every rule of grammar, there is always an exception.  Which makes you think, ‘Are we just making it up as we go along?’ Well, of course we are! Language is a man-made invention, and as we all know from experience, man is far…

Translationby Martha Mendoza AP ou might use Google Translate to read a hard-to-find manga or to decipher an obscure recipe for authentic Polish blintzes. Or, like Phillip and Niki Smith in rural Mississippi, you could use it to rescue a Chinese orphan and fall in love at the same time. Google is now doing a…

TranslationAs I’ve previously posted on how bad translations can have an affect on misunderstandings on the global scale, it would appear that once again mistranslation could be responsible for heightening the tensions with North Korea. RIA Novosti reports: North Korea has declared that it is entering a “state of war” with South Korea, saying that…

TranslationWe’ve all used phrases like, “It’s raining cats and dogs” or “They threw the book at him!” (in my case, this was used literally in my 7th grade English class thanks to my teacher’s unconventional methods to make me stop talking), but did you ever wonder how these phrases came to be part of our…