Globalization Group News
World Cup Translation »
The 2010 FIFA World Cup Translation Bloopers have inspired the poem "2010 World Cup Cultural Dunce Awards," by Rachel [...]
Translation Tips
Internationalized Domain Names »
Are you already localizing your website content into other languages? Consider doing the same to [...]
Language Use by Region »
What are the top 10 languages by population in New York and other states? Where are the most [...]
Native Speakers »
Use only translators that are native speakers of the target language. The same is true for editors [...]
Winners in Translation
Video Game Localization ROI of 15X »
A video game publisher recently told the Brazilian newspaper O Globo that it sees 15 times more revenue from a video game localized in Portuguese than it [Read More]
Translation Bloopers
Crash Landing in French »
Last year, French-speaking passengers aboard a Aer Lingus Dublin-Paris flight [...]
Wishing Floor Elevator »
The following instructions were reportedly translated into English and found in [...]
Jerusalem – There Is »
A few years ago, a phrase in a Jerusalem sightseeing brochure should have been [...]
Language News & Media
Glocalization and other “Non »
"Glocalization" is one of millions of "non words" that remain unused in a vault owned by Oxford University Press. Some of these words include the following: Blogish – a variety of English that uses a large number of initialisms, frequently used on [Read More]
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