TranslationIt’s Friday kids!  So that means it’s time for our Funny Video Friday installment. This week features a clip of Simon Pegg and the Big Train comedy sketch team from BBC Comedy. (View our other week’s submission here).  

TranslationChoose your character, write spells, map the dungeon and move up levels. It sounds like Dungeons and Dragons, but it’s not. It’s Latin class. Each student plays a hero from Graeco-Roman myth with a backstory, personality and actions determined largely by the student. Over the semester-long journey the players face obstacles, challenges and opportunities both…

TranslationIsraeli online translation company Babylon Ltd. (BBYL.TV) said Tuesday it has signed a four-year revenue- sharing agreement with portal Yahoo Inc. ( YHOO ). Founded in 1997, Babylon is an international Internet company engaged in the development, marketing and sales of software solutions in the search and translation field. The Company is controlled by Noam…

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…