Posts Tagged ‘kazakh’
Google Translate has great uses, disastrous misuses
Google Translate and other free online translation tools can be great for instant, informal translation. When expectations are properly set, particularly for low-value text, unedited machine translation can be quite useful. However, when a user overestimates machine translation capabilities, the results can be confusing at best. When one online [...]
Poll: Top Translation Blunders of 2010
Translation blunders made news throughout the year 2010. By translation blunders, we are not referring to urban legends like President John F. Kennedy's alleged slip-up saying "I am a jelly doughnut" - that never happened. Nor are we referring to Dave Barry's satirical claim, "The CEO of Toyota appears before a congressional committee and [...]
Language and Country Codes
Many multilingual websites are organized using subdomains and subdirectories based on language codes or country codes. These are usually ISO codes. See the following example that Google gave for a French website in Canada using the alpha-2 code for the French language: French language code subdirectory: www.example.ca/fr French language code [...]
Language and Country Names List
English speakers expect that a link to an English language/country option on a website will be listed in English, not translated into another language. Otherwise, how easily would an English speaker find a link to English content if the language name were written in Asian, Cyrillic, or Middle Eastern characters? Or how easy would it be if the [...]
Microsoft Language Portal Update Includes Office 2010 International Terminology
The Microsoft Language Portal has recently been updated to include International Terminology from Office 2010 in 90 languages. As mentioned previously, Microsoft has produced great free resources for download and/or search that include all of its style guides and glossaries, which can double as translation memory.
Business Card Translation Success | 4 Elements to Get Right
Business cards may seem small and uncomplicated, but here are a few things you should know about business cards that appear in other languages. Using these tips will help business go smoothly when working with international clients. Know that size, nontranslation of certain elements, and even the way you present your business card are different [...]
Top Languages by Population
In prioritizing markets to target and languages to translate, should you care which languages are spoken by the largest population? Maybe. Maybe not. Looking at the top 12 languages by percentage of world population, you'll see some languages like Javanese and Lahnda (which includes Panjabi) that are rarely included when a company prioritizes [...]
No Pass for Gas Translation | Kazakh Translation Error
Two weeks ago, Kazakhstan Today ran the following news story on the English version of its website: Passing gas is Kazakhstan's property Astana. March 12. Kazakhstan Today - The head of state, Nursultan Nazarbayev, assigned to work on transfer of passing gas to the state ownership at the meeting with the regional akims concerning realization [...]
Translation & Localization Glossaries: Guide & Downloads
Consistency is an important measure of quality in translation. Three tools that help maintain consistency in a company's translation include glossaries, style guides, and translation memory. Glossaries help maintain consistency at the term level, translation memories help maintain consistency at the sentence level, and style guides help fill in [...]
