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With 14,000 athletes from 205 Olympic teams and 170 Paralympic teams taking part, the London 2012 Olympic Games is going to be a test of communication. The official languages of the Olympics are English and French and some have reported that this means announcements and signposts will feature both these languages at the games, which [...] { 1 comment } 
After three months it’s sadly time to say goodbye, but since joining the team in January as a PR and Marketing intern what have I learnt? What haven’t I learnt! My daily tasks have ranged from reading the news to proofreading colleagues work; reporting what’s hot in Singapore to contacting journalists. I have learnt a [...] { 4 comments } 
Having your minutes produced quickly and accurately can mean the difference between profit and loss. Is your competition getting the upper hand? We’re interested to find out just how long businesses wait to get hold of vital information which means they can react quicker than their competition. Loading… { 0 comments } 
This year the World Shakespeare Festival is taking place as a celebration of all things Shakespeare! In London, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre will honour the Bard by showing 37 of his plays in 37 languages. This illustrates the extent of influence his work still holds on the world nearly 450 years on. Over 50% of the [...] { 0 comments } 
Matt Cutts announced another step towards making Google’s search results much more relevant. The search engines new update will clamp down on sites who stuff their pages with webspam in order to gain rankings for keywords and phrases. These tactics can involve: Keyword stuffing – filling a page full of the words they want to [...] { 0 comments } 
UNESCO chose to focus on the theme of translation during their World Book Day on Monday April 23rd. World Book Day seeks to promote reading and publishing. It was used this year to draw attention to the importance of translation and how it presents the opportunity to access a broader collection of books, allowing for [...] { 0 comments } 
Today is St George’s Day, Shakespeare’s birthday and the anniversary of the ZX Spectrum! The 23rd of April is celebrated as St Georges Day in England. It is thought to be William Shakespeare’s birthday as well, on the same day as he died 52 years later, and the day also marks the 30th anniversary of the [...] { 1 comment } 
I see a lot of presentations. This week was particularly presentation heavy, as I ran two Bettakultcha events of my own, and I was also fortunate to be asked to take part in SPLASH, an event run by Kirklees College which encourages college students to learn active business skills. The event was a cross between [...] { 0 comments } 
For example, a 78-character long tweet in English could be as short as only 24 characters in Chinese. Concise languages make for excellent microblogging This makes Chinese ideal! Twitter, along with other microblogs, restricts users to write their messages in 140 characters or less. Consequently some languages seemingly fit better than others into the concept [...] { 0 comments } 
A recent article by Slate discusses how many people in Sweden are trying to banish gender in language to minimise gender stereotyping. The idea is to replace the pronouns han and hon, “he” and “she”, with a single pronoun, hen. However, The Economist disagrees; they suggest there is just a small movement striving towards language [...] { 1 comment } |
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