From the monthly archives:

December 2009

Generating revenue from video transcription

December 20, 2009

The Guardian carries a report today on video transcription. Global Lingo has been looking into providing transcripts of online video and audio for a while now, and is delighted to report positive trends in the area.

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Translation in Universities

December 20, 2009

The challenges of corporate translation facing those whose only experience of translation has been at university.

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Translation Myths – “Eskimos have over 400 words for snow”

December 20, 2009

Eskimos have over 400 words for snow and other translation myths.

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Translation Funding

December 20, 2009

In the light of Arts Council England’s decision to cut funding for many organisations, The Times today sums up the situation facing publishers that specialise in translated fiction.

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Translating Treaties

December 20, 2009

News from Global Lingo US-Iraq Declaration has been misinterpreted due to poor translation service

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Simultaneous Telephone Interpreting

December 20, 2009

The nominees for the inaugural International Prize for Arabic Fiction were announced today.

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Tattoo News

December 20, 2009

A poor translation is for life, as one teenager discovered recently. The BBC reports that a 19-year-old’s attempt to have a tattooed Chinese translation of her boyfriend’s nickname went awry when the tattoo characters were revealed to mean ‘supermarket’. 

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Succession Communications

December 20, 2009

News from Global Lingo A leading FTSE 100 company came to Global Lingo for taking help in translating their conversation, press release

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'Bloody Awful' Stenographers

December 20, 2009

News from Global Lingo The Scottish Court has faced a severe problem due to the bloody awful quality of transcription service from its Stenographers

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Spoken and Written Language

December 20, 2009

One of the stimulating challenges for theatre and television directors is working with a script. A script is a starting-point; an actor can give to his or her lines a distinctive intonation, cadence, volume and register. From one script, an endless variety of performances can be developed.

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