Translation-/Language-Newsticker August

• (Archive July 2005)
• Google goes to the top of the language class
  zdnet.co.uk - (2005/08/23)
  The search giant has come out on top of a recent computerised translation test, but its service is still far from perfect ...
• Review: LiveDictionary offers useful Safari word services
  macsimumnews.com - (2005/08/22)
  We liked LiveDictionary when we first reviewed it back in April 2004 at Macsimum Perspective, the predecessor of Macsimum News. Now up to version 1.1.6, the US$25 extension for Safaris Web browser that adds dictionary lookups to the Web is even better. ...
• Wanted: Lithuanian speakers!
  bridlingtontoday.co.uk - (2005/08/22)
  A BRIDLINGTON organisation which helps families with young children or families in crisis is desperately trying to find someone who speaks Lithuanian. ...
• Grand Island hospital program breaks language barrier
  siouxcityjournal.com - (2005/08/22)
  ... Aguilar and Hines have been handing out "I Speak" cards around the hospital. The cards are printed in Spanish on one side and English on the other. ...
• Google Increases Support To 116 Languages
  webpronews.com - (2005/08/22)
  One of Google's missions is to bring the ability of web search to all the corners of globe and this includes supporting as many languages as possible. ...
• Babelfish Translates Well Into North American Languages (satire)
  thetoque.com - (2005/08/20)
  The creators of Babelfish, a language tool that translates text from a variety of different languages, have added two more valuable translations to its inventory, Canadian to American and American to Canadian. The new translation tools should help facilitate communication between the citizens of these two linguistically-independent nations. ...
• Not found in translation
  boston.com - (2005/08/20)
  AS THE world gets smaller, there's more to read: literature by authors from all over the world. To be widely read by Americans, these works requires skilled translators. And the work of translation needs more support. ...
• The Changing Face Of The Triad Part 2: Speaking Your Patient's Language
  wfmynews2.com - (2005/08/18)
  ... Dr. Hale explains that there are logistical challenges to having timely interpretation, with only two Spanish-speaking interpreters currently employed by Moses Cone. For translation in languages other than Spanish, the hospital uses a three-way interpretation service by phone, which Young says can be "very cumbersome." ...
• NYPD Arabic Speakers Monitor Terror Online
  1010wins.com - (2005/08/18)
  On a recent afternoon in a drab office near the banks of the Hudson River, a team of undercover investigators _ born in Muslim countries and fluent in languages like Arabic, Farsi and Pashto _ huddled in front of computers as Al-Jazeera droned in the background. ...
• Online-Übersetzer im Test: Wer löst das Sprachgewirr?
  netzwelt.de - (2005/08/18)
  Informationen ohne Grenzen – das Internet bietet alles, was das Herz des modernen Informationsjunkies begehrt. Allerdings gibt es sehr wohl Grenzen, in Form von Sprachbarrieren. Das Web ist polyglot, doch kein Surfer ist in der Lage, die rund 6500 Sprachen und Dialekte der Welt zu beherrschen. Für die rund zehn "Weltsprachen" gibt es allerdings Abhilfe in Form von Online-Übersetzern. Dieser Test zeigt, was sie können. ...
• Police need bilingual officers
  timesdispatch.com - (2005/08/17)
  ... Monroe also said the department will spend $30,000 to purchase language-translation devices called "phrasealators" for officers to use when they encounter a language barrier. ...
• Parla, habla, parlez, sprechen - It's all in the lingo!
  responsesource.com - (2005/08/17)
  Avanquest UK are pleased to announce a new republishing deal with Transparent Language, an established leader in language-learning technologies. Transparent Language, Inc. develops and markets a wide range of technology-driven language learning solutions for the consumer, education, government and corporate markets. ...
• New Transliteration Web Service - No More Email Ciphers
  eworldwire.com - (2005/08/17)
  Latkey Offers A New Way For Everyone To Read Emails And Blogs In Any Language ...
• Army speeds high-tech tools to soldiers
  zdnet.com - (2005/08/15)
  ... The gadget has a number of preset Arabic phrases that it can recite aloud when a soldier speaks the corresponding phrase in English. A more sophisticated device that would also translate back from Arab into English remains farther off. "I am looking at a two-way translator. I think that even gives you more power," ...
• Food-prep rules often get lost in translation
  indystar.com - (2005/08/15)
  Restaurant, health officials want state to provide safety policies in other languages. ...
• New Technologies, Teaching Approaches Boost Language Training
  lknliving.com - (2005/08/15)
  ... But when it comes to developing professional linguists, nothing within the department compares to the Defense Language Institute, which trains more than 3,000 students a year in 75 languages. ...
• Languages ‘leak’ into each other in subtle ways says study
  utoronto.ca - (2005/08/15)
  Difficult for brain to completely compartmentalize two distinct languages without subtley merging ...
• Mind your slanguage
  guardian.co.uk - (2005/08/14)
  Where do words like 'bling' and 'nang' come from? A new documentary examines how youth culture sticks its tongue out at the Queen's English ...
• A language barrier
  argusleader.com - (2005/08/14)
  Oromo from Ethiopia hurt by gap in understanding cultures: the misuse of words and lazy assumptions ...
• Birmingham program helps bridge language gap in hospitals
  ledger-enquirer.com - (2005/08/14)
  Michael Johnson helps save people's lives at Cooper Green Hospital. He doesn't use medicine. He uses communication. Johnson, 34, is a medical interpreter at Cooper Green Hospital. ...
• Pentagon modifying civilian technology to help troops in Iraq
  volunteertv.com - (2005/08/13)
  It's altered a Palm Pilot-like device to include various Arabic phrases. Colonel Greg Tubbs, who heads the Rapid Equipping Force, says the soldier selects a phrase and the device speaks it, thereby enabling better communication with Iraqi civilians. ...
• Clinic employee translates skill into help
  roanoke.com - (2005/08/13)
  Connie Vermillion followed her father through Central America as a girl, went to high school in El Salvador and picked up some Spanish. Decades later, she can still roll her r's, but she worked at the Bradley Free Clinic for years before her co-workers found out. ...
• The Majority Rules on the Internet
  donga.com - (2005/08/13)
  ... A translation service provided by Google is more accurate than general translation software created by popular foreign language experts. The software relies on a pre-determined translating system, significantly limiting its translation potential. ...
• Language separates immigrants, officials
  newutah.com - (2005/08/13)
  Forty-year-old Mahamud Guled can't read his electricity bill, job applications or food labels at the grocery store. The Somalian refugee, who moved to Utah with his family less than a year ago, doesn't know much English. He speaks Maimai, an African tribal language, and depends on his 20-year-old nephew to translate for him. ...
• Women's voices are music to men's ears
  fortwayne.com - (2005/08/12)
  Chances are you hear that phrase on a fairly regular basis if a) you're a man, and b) you spend a significant amount of time around a woman. Men seem to miss important facts and sometimes entire conversations directed at them by the fairer sex all the time, at least if women are to be believed. ...
• English, French: Why not both?
  theglobeandmail.com - (2005/08/12)
  My personality changes when I switch from one language to the other. ...
• Arabic Tops Defense Language School Offerings
  blackanthem.com - (2005/08/12)
  Twenty years ago, when the Berlin Wall still divided Germany and the Cold War was still raging, the unofficial fighting words for most students at the Defense Language Institute here were: "We're learning Russian so you don't have to. " Today, DLI still has a respectable Russian Studies program, but 70 percent of its students are now studying Arabic, Korean and Chinese, ...
• Language spoken by 35,000 has Google
  fosters.com - (2005/08/12)
  Not many people have heard of Romansch. But in the future, those looking for Web sites in Switzerland may find themselves trying to decipher this Latin-linked language. ...
• Cheap ways to learn a new language
  bankrate.com - (2005/08/12)
  The urge to travel is powerful and so is the urge to peek into another way of life by learning a new language. ...
• Possible pattern found in Incan strings
  siliconvalley.com - (2005/08/11)
  Three figure-eight knots tied into strings may be the first word from the ancient Inca in centuries. ...
• Inuktitut: language of the courts
  nunatsiaq.com - (2005/08/11)
  No translation required for accused ...
• Flat and flattering... The World is Flat
  thehindubusinessline.com - (2005/08/11)
  A Brief History of The Globalized World In The 21st Century ... An interesting nugget Friedman gives is that Google is now searchable in 100 languages, "and every time we find another we increase it," ...
• More than one language of love
  news-leader.com - (2005/08/11)
  Identifying and learning how to speak your mate's primary love language — how that person wants to be and feel loved — is one key to sustaining a long-lasting, loving marriage, writes marriage counselor Gary Chapman. ...
• Sorry, I don't speak Furbish
  timesonline.co.uk - (2005/08/10)
  Lost in translation with a talking Furby, billed as the 'the most emotional toy ever' - I’M SITTING in a New York hotel interviewing a furry toy that looks like a cross between an owl and a koala bear. Every time I say “Hey Furby”, the creature bats its big blue eyes and chirps contentedly. But when I try to continue the conversation, it insists on telling silly jokes. ...
• Project Seeks to Preserve Dying Languages
  kfmb.com - (2005/08/10)
  Every two weeks or so the last elderly man or woman with full command of a particular language dies. At that rate, as many as 2,500 native tongues will disappear forever by 2100.David W. Lightfoot is helping spearhead a government initiative to preserve some of these dying languages, ...
• Refurbished Furby will return soon
  orlandosentinel.com - (2005/08/10)
  ... The new Furby will not only speak Furbish and English, but will be available in several other languages, including Spanish, German, French, Japanese and Italian. ...
• "Le Petit Prince" translated into Berber language
  albawaba.com - (2005/08/10)
  "Le Petit Prince" (the Little Prince) of Antoine de Saint-Exupery was translated into Berber language in Morocco by Lahbib Fouad, who is a researcher in Royal Institute of the Amazigh Culture (IRCAM). ...
• Tribal language has no words for colours
  newscientist.com - (2005/08/10)
  Consider a world without words for colour, numbers or tales about imaginary beings. A tribe in Brazil may already live in such a world ...
• Potty-mouthed? New English words are just lush
  Reuters - (2005/08/10)
  Do chuggers bother you when you want to rock up to a restaurant with your cockapoo to hoover a supersized ruby murray? Confused? Then you need to refer to the new Oxford Dictionary of English to understand a host of new words that appear for the first time in its latest edition. ...
• New Program Recruits Native Speakers into Army Guard
  American Forces Press Service - (2005/08/09)
  A new Army National Guard program is helping attract young people with native language skills and cultural expertise into the military to support the global war on terror. The new program focuses on recruiting native speakers in 20 languages and dialects, most spoken in the Middle East, into the Army's 09L "translator aid" career field, ...
• How to Learn Chinese in 2,200 Not-So-Easy Lessons
  Washington Post - (2005/08/09)
  I spent several years, and some of your tax dollars, trying to learn Chinese, so I need to say something about a new campaign to get that language into U.S. schools and colleges. ...
• How Buddha’s language is back in revival mode
  expressindia.com - (2005/08/09)
  Workshop uses Pali, the ancient Indian language, in vipassana meditation techniques ...
• CRIME: Police spread word on car crime in other languages
  peterboroughtoday.co.uk - (2005/08/09)
  ... Police have added five signs in different languages to those already up across the city.The signs, which give a simple crime prevention message in English, Polish, Lithuanian, Portuguese and the Kurdish language Sorani, ...
• Mulitlingual medicine: Local hospitals have interpreters available
  springfieldnewssun.com - (2005/08/08)
  Montrez-nous quelle lengue vous parlez. Nous vous fournirons une interprete. The French words mean &ldquoPoint to your language. An interpreter will be called.&rdquo ...
• International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
  tempo.com.ph - (2005/08/08)
  ... Scholars estimate that there at least 5,000 languages spoken all over the world today. The death of a language means that the cultural group that speaks it died, too. And with its death, a part of humanity becomes a thing of the past. ...
• Beyond an Encyclopedia: What's Next for Wikimania?
  mediachannel.org - (2005/08/08)
  ... The English-language version started only in 2001 but now includes 672,848 often-changing articles. What's even more exciting is the Wikipedians' hope to encourage the creation of similar encyclopedias in every language in the world. ...
• POPULAR HEALTH GUIDE TRANSLATED
  Community Newswire - (2005/08/08)
  A charity dedicated to supporting children with heart disorders was today celebrating the launch of their highly-popular advice handbook in seven new languages. The HeartLine Association are now offering their useful guide in Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali and Italian at its dedicated website. ...
• Internet lingo still foreign language
  signonsandiego.com - (2005/08/08)
  Podcasting and RSS feeds may be the latest craze in high-tech circles, but the general public is largely unfamiliar with the Internet terms. ...
• Stupid PICTURE
  bildblog.de - (2005/08/08)
  Der Schwierigkeitsgrad dieser journalistischen Aufgabe war eigentlich nicht so hoch: Bild.de wollte testen, wie gut verschiedene automatische Übersetzer im Internet funktionieren. Man sucht sich einige deutsche Sätze aus, gibt sie ein, lässt sich das Ergebnis zurückübersetzen. Eine, sagen wir, machbare Aufgabe. ...
• Online-Übersetzer im Test
  Bild - (2005/08/05)
  Es war mit Ihnen, wenn wir so schön uns wieder sehen? Beim heißen Flirt auf Ibiza genügten Blicke. Zurück in der Heimat soll eine Mail die Urlaubsliebe besiegeln. Der Wille ist da, doch es fehlen die Worte. Da kommen Online-Übersetzungsprogramme wie gerufen. ...
• GrapeCity India’s software bags international award
  agencyfaqs.com - (2005/08/07)
  "Talking Phrasebooks" by GrapeCity India has bagged the prestigious US Handango Champion Award for Best Industry Application for the Pocket PC for 2005. The software is designed for those on the move - business travelers, tourists, and students who constantly go to countries where the native language is not English. ...
• Corporate Translation Services -- The Future of Professional Translation has Arrived
  emediawire.com - (2005/08/07)
  Corporate Translation Services offers a unique way of doing business that is revolutionizing the translation industry. New technologies now allow fast, competitive and highly accurate translation of even the rarest languages. ...
• Isher Micro Media: Gurbani research tool of the future!
  The Panthic Weekly - (2005/08/07)
  In the modern world of IT, research is done through the mode of computers and databases. Paper encyclopedias, indexes and concordances, which could be subject to human error, have been replaced by the precision of a database. What consumed enormous time a little ago, can now be done in a few seconds and a few clicks. ...
• Lost in translation: Few local 911 dispatchers speak Spanish
  journaltimes.com - (2005/08/07)
  Julie Scherer, a Racine County 911 dispatcher, can hardly understand many of the people who call her for help. Even in English, their worlds are unclear and hurried. But it's worse when the caller speaks only Spanish. Scherer speaks only English. ...
• Utahns Dialogue In Diverse Languages
  kutv.com - (2005/08/07)
  Although English is still the predominate language used in Salt Lake County households, roughly 133,000 residents – or about 16 percent – are speaking in other tongues while at home. Data collected in 2000 by the Modern Language Association shows about six in 10 people speak Spanish. German, Bosnian, Vietnamese and Pacific Islander, including Tongan are also commonly spoken. Yiddish, Gujarathi, French Creole and Miao or Hmong are among the county's least common languages. ...
• Pentagon: „Entwickelt uns einen Babelfisch“
  netzwelt.de - (2005/08/07)
  Satte 50 Millionen Dollar will die amerikanische Regierung in ein Gerät investieren, welches alle möglichen Sprachen in Echtzeit ins Englische übersetzen kann. Die gewaltige Summe soll auf drei Teams, zu denen auch der Elektronik-Riese IBM zählt, verteilt, und innerhalb eines Zeitraumes von zwei Jahren ausgezahlt werden. ...
• Essential Español - Same difference
  azcentral.com - (2005/08/05)
  Just as in English, there are several dialects in the Spanish language. These dialects are usually defined by countries, but in several cases geographical barriers or cultural and historical associations are stronger influences than political borders. ...
• China to host 2008 World Translators Congress
  chinaview.cn - (2005/08/05)
  The Translators Association of China delegation bid successfully on August 3 to host the XVIII World Congress of the International Federation of Translators (FIT) in Shanghai, in eastern China, in 2008. ...
• Language puts court in quandry
  news24.com - (2005/08/05)
  A suspected burglar claims he doesn't understand any of South Africa's 11 official languages, forcing a court to postpone the trial. ...
• Schools support use of the Wiradjuri language
  cowra.yourguide.com.au - (2005/08/05)
  The Wiradjuri language is sparingly taught in our education system but Cowra schools believe there is room to boost its profile. Before 1788 Australians spoke an estimated 250 languages. ...
• Getting your PC to listen to you
  WFAA-TV - (2005/08/03)
  When did people start thinking they could talk to their computers? I guess that may date back to the original Star Trek. Now, of course, we're constantly confronted with automated voice recognition, ...
• Voice Technology Enters the Mainstream
  pcmag.com - (2005/08/03)
  When hearing terms like "voice integration" and "voice recognition," it's hard not to think about Star Trek and other sci-fi shows, where speech-sensitive technology is almost as standard as spaceships and hyperspace. ...
• Microsoft Learns to Speak
  Red Herring - (2005/08/03)
  Microsoft will integrate speech capabilities into Exchange later this year to spur usage of speech-to-text applications in its popular email and messaging server software. ...
• IBM Partners Drive Community Open Source Initiatives for Speech Technologies
  WebSphere Journal - (2005/08/02)
  Reusable Dialog Components Initiative Boosting Speech Innovations ...
• Forget French lessons - a new atlas offers insights into !Xoop
  The Guardian - (2005/08/02)
  In Japan people think it rude to say "you" - but in India there are six different ways to address a person. ...
• Symbol Technologies Launches Speech-Recognition Mobile Computing Solution for Warehouse Environments
  finanzen.net - (2005/08/02)
  Symbol Technologies, Inc. , The Enterprise Mobility Company(TM), today introduced new speech-recognition enabled versions of its MC9000 series of mobile computers. ...
• Going global? Speak language of exporting success
  bostonherald.com - (2005/08/01)
  The State Department has estimated that U.S. firms lose $50 billion in potential sales annually because of lack of translation. ...

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