TranslationDo you enjoy reading our blog?  Do you sit by your computer, refreshing your browser, anxiously awaiting our next post? Then show your support by voting for us in the Top 100 Language Lovers competition, presented by Lexiophiles and Bab.la! Lackuna has been nominated for inclusion in the Professional Language Blog category.  We have included…

TranslationWhen Lexicographers study the origin of words, they look for the earliest recorded usage, which tends to fall to literature.  Therefore, it is no great surprise that one of America’s greatest modern authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald could have been responsible for inventing one or two words that are still used today. But he didn’t invent…

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).  

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…

TranslationLast year I did a post that listed 20 untranslatable words from other languages.  The post got a lot of attention (mostly thanks to naysayers denying the ‘untranslatable’ label), so I thought I would do a follow-up with more words from around the world. While a debate could linger on about whether or not there…

TranslationBy Vignesh Ramachandran, Mashable International travelers can put away the pocket bilingual dictionaries. Packaged along with Thursday’s glitz announcing Samsung’s new Galaxy S 4 smartphone was an instant translator function. The Galaxy S 4 includes Samsung’s “S Translator” feature, which lets you instantly translate your email or text messages, using text or voice translation. The feature can…

TranslationBy Maria Foreign language translators are useful to people travelling to foreign countries for the purpose of education or employment. It helps them to converse with the colleagues of foreign countries easily. Previously people with multilingual capabilities were employed to translate them. As the technology has advanced, electronic translators came into the market. Each translator…

TranslationThe Cherokee Nation and Microsoft today celebrated the addition of the Cherokee language into Windows 8. It is the first Native American language fully integrated into Microsoft’s core operating system. The translation of 180,000 words into Cherokee is the largest translation project by the tribe since the New Testament in the 1800s. Microsoft executives from…

Translation The parents of a hearing-disabled boy received a heartwarming holiday gift from a mall Santa Claus who unexpectedly managed to communicate with their son. Cameron Sylvester, 3, requires two hearing aids due to auditory neuropathy, his father told WCVB. The family recently went to a mall southwest of Boston so he and his sister,…

TranslationA colleague of mine recently came across this article on A List Apart that talks about website translation and user experience.  I found it very interesting and informative, and I thought I would share it with you in its entirety. Translation is UX by Antoine Lefeuvre There is a world where Harry Potter’s arch enemy is…