tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58584795548798779002024-03-18T22:07:17.265-07:00Lexcode Languages and CommunicationLexcode Languages and Communicationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13895622148189761733noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5858479554879877900.post-84435387811491690802013-05-07T18:45:00.003-07:002013-05-07T18:46:10.199-07:00Google Doodle Features Graphic Designer, Saul Bass<span style="background-color: white; color: #1f176a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span>
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Lexcode Languages and Communicationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13895622148189761733noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5858479554879877900.post-52984273715863364062013-04-17T22:00:00.000-07:002013-04-17T22:00:12.205-07:00Psy's Gentleman (English Translation)<br />
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With over 137 M views in You Tube after its release last April 13, 2013, Psy's "Gentleman" is truly a smashing hit. It has broken the record of Justin Bieber's "Beauty and the Beat" with 10.6 million views on its first day. "Gentleman" has raked 18.9 million views on it's first day.<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I don’t know if you know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It’s not cool if you are confused<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But we like, we we we we like to party<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Let me tell you what type of a person I am,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Literally!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I am bold, full of spirit, crazy and sharp.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Literally!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Damn! Girl!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">You so freaking sexy!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I’m a mother father gentleman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Why I have to be sleek<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Darling! Hurry and let’s make a fuss<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There is a big fuss, let’s hurry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Let me say something.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Literally!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Your hair, waist, legs and calves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Literally!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Good! Feeling, feeling? Good! Softly!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Literally!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Make you scream and shout<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Literally!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Damn! Girl!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I’m a party mafia!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Gonna make you wet!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">You know who I am<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Wet PSY!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lexcode Languages and Communicationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13895622148189761733noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5858479554879877900.post-32968063893284503432013-03-13T22:54:00.001-07:002013-03-13T22:54:54.470-07:00Lexcode Team Building 2013<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 17.98611068725586px; text-align: center;">To foster camaraderie, teamwork and leadership among our staff, we held our team building activities at </span><a href="http://www.falconcrestresort.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; background-color: white; color: #2b256f; display: inline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 17.98611068725586px; outline: none; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Falcon Crest Resort</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 17.98611068725586px; text-align: center;"> in Bulacan last March 2, 2013. The day was filled with exciting games and activities like frisbee, dodgeball, rappelling, zip line and obstacle course.</span><br />
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Mind Games: Test of Leadership, Communication and Coordination</h2>
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Another Lexcodian Trademark: Dodgeball</h2>
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Lexcode Languages and Communicationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13895622148189761733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5858479554879877900.post-86575009716098798102013-02-21T06:16:00.002-08:002013-02-21T06:16:07.308-08:00International Mother Language Day Conference 2013<br />
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</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">This year, UP Layap, together with Lexcode Inc. will hold a mini-conference to participate in the celebration of International Mother Language Day, an observance held annually to promote linguistic awareness, cultural diversity and multilingualism. IMLD 2013 will include activities such as paper presentation, poster making and essay writing contests. Grades 4 to 6 and 1st year and 2nd year high school students coming from different schools in Metro Manila shall be invited to participate and represent their school in these activities.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">There will be a parallel session for teachers – a forum on MTBMLE and Filipino Sign Language and the recent victories in the fight for better and quality education system under the new K to 12 program.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Registration fee is Php200.00 per head which includes the kit, lunch and certificates.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">For inquiries, please contact:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mhawi Rosero: 09154514426</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Doone Pedroza: 09273238294</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Email: lipadlayap@gmail.com</span></span></div>
Lexcode Languages and Communicationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13895622148189761733noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5858479554879877900.post-55810606446149271862013-02-14T17:01:00.005-08:002013-02-14T17:02:44.282-08:00Keep Languages Alive! Top Translation Company in the Philippines Supports the 14th International Mother Language Day<span style="background-color: white; color: #1f176a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Makati, Philippines—The world will speak as one on February 21, 2013, to highlight the role of languages in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1f176a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">preserving cultures across the globe. This day marks the International Mother Language Day (IMLD), a timely reminder this Valentine month to love your mother tongue.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1f176a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">With the 2013 IMLD theme, "The Book," Lexcode further strives to be an instrument in strengthening people’s grasp of their mother tongue through written communication. In a statement shared to Lexcode, Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO said, “In this age of new technologies, books remain precious instruments… We must do more to distribute materials and books as widely and fairly as possible, so that all people—children above all—can read in the language of their choice, including their mother tongue. Translation is an important part of this great project by creating bridges to new readers.”</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #1f176a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1f176a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Lexcode wants to build a strong foundation for the bridges it will create. “Communication is the heart of our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1f176a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">company. We serve many countries, yet here in the Philippines, translation is still a new, if not strange, concept. Lexcode takes on a mission to bridge this gap. Let’s love our languages because they keep us alive,” says CEO Chul Young Ham. The company itself is a reflection of today’s global village—a multilingual and multicultural community of language professionals from around the world, who helped translate millions of pages in hundreds of languages.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #1f176a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1f176a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">According to its Philippine Director, Christine Ignacio, Lexcode plans to work closely with the Department of Education as well as NGOs and student groups working to protect Philippine languages and dialects through education. “We globalize when we localize—we pay homage to language by recognizing that we need to speak in one’s mother tongue to respect people’s linguistic identity and foster positive change,” she continued.</span><br />
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #1f176a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did you know that <i>Les Miserables</i> was translated into 21 languages to reach a wider audience? This</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> became possible through linguists who translated Victor Hugo's epic novel. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas is just around the corner! And with the advances in technology like social networking and several other improvements on globalization, the world seems to have been a lot smaller. We get to communicate to people from all over the world who speak all sorts of languages. To make them feel more special this Christmas season, let’s learn how to greet them, “Merry Christmas” in different languages. Let’s start from A to Z!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Belgium: Zalig Kerstfeest<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Belize: Merry Christmas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Benin: Joyeux Noël<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bermuda: Merry Christmas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bhutan: krist Yesu Ko Shuva Janma Utsav Ko Upalaxhma Hardik Shuva<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bolivia: Feliz Navidad<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bosnia and Herzegowina: Sretam Bozic, Hristos se rodi<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Botswana: Merry Christmas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brazil: Feliz Natal<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">British Indian Ocean Territory: Happy Christmas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brunei Darussalam: Selamat Hari Natal<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bulgaria: Vessela Koleda<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Burkina Faso: Joyeux Noël<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Canada: Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noël, Merry Christmas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cape Verde: Boas Festas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cayman Islands: Merry Christmas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Central African Republic: Joyeux Noël<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chad: Joyeux Noël, Milad Mubarak<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chile: Feliz Navidad China Sheng Tan Kuai Loh<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chinese (Mandarin): Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas Island: Merry Christmas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Colombia: Feliz Navidad para todos<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Comoros: Joyeux Noël, Milad Mubarak<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congo: Joyeux Noël<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cook Islands: Merry Christmas, Kia orana e kia manuia rava i teia Kiritime<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Costa Rica: Feliz Navidad<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cote D'ivoire: Joyeux Noël<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Croatia: Sretan Bozic<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cuba: Feliz Navidad<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cyprus: Eftihismena Christougenna, Noëliniz kutlu olsun ve yeni yili<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Czech Republic: Vesele Vanoce</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Denmark: Glaedelig Jul<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Djibouti: Joyeux Noël, Milad Mubarak<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dominica: Merry Christmas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Egypt: Milad Mubarak<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Equatorial Guinea: Joyeux Noël, Feliz Navidad<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gambia: Merry Christmas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Georgia: Gilotsavt Krist'es Shobas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Germany: Frohliche Weihnachten<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ghana: Afishapa<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gibraltar: Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greenland: Glædelig Jul, Juullimi Ukiortaassamilu Pilluarit<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grenada: Merry Christmas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guadeloupe: Joyeux Noël<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guam: Merry Christmas, Felis Pasgua<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guatemala: Feliz Navidad<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guinea-bissau: Boas Festas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hindi: Shubh Christmas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Honduras: Feliz Navidad<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Iraq: Idah Saidan Wasanah Jadidah<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ireland: Nollaig Shona Dhuit<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Israel: Mo'adim Lesimkha<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Latin: Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Macedonia: Streken Bozhik<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Madagascar: Joyeux Noël, Arahaba tratry ny Krismasy<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malawi: Merry Christmas, Moni Wa Chikondwelero Cha X'mas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malta: Il-Milied it-Tajjeb, Festi t-Tajba<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Panama: Feliz Navidad<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">San Marino: Buon Natale<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sao Tome and Principe: Boas Festas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Senegal: Joyeux Noël<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seychelles: Happy Christmas, Joyeux Noël<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sierra Leone: Happy Christmas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Singapore: Sheng Tan Kuai Loh, Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal, Happy Christmas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">South Africa: Geseënde Kersfees, Happy Christmas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sri Lanka: Subha nath thalak Vewa, Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">St. Helena: Happy Christmas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">St. Pierre and Miquelon: Joyeux Noël<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sudan: Wilujeng Natal<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands: Hristos Razdajetsja, Gledelig Jul<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Lexcode Languages and Communicationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13895622148189761733noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5858479554879877900.post-49455749148100146512012-06-26T03:22:00.001-07:002012-06-26T03:25:22.919-07:00To Localize or Not to Localize...<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">... that is the question. Recently, we've noticed two reports of companies claiming that "it just isn't worth it" to have websites in other languages. Last week, the New York Times profiled several </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/technology/start-ups/27global.html?_r=1" style="background-color: white; color: #0046d5; font-family: arial, Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">web-based businesses that elected to decrease or eliminate their web presence</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;"> in some parts of the world, in spite of popularity in the local markets. This weekend, the Wall Street Journal broke the news that </span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124122625291179435.html" style="background-color: white; color: #0046d5; font-family: arial, Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Home Depot is shutting down its Spanish-language site</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">. This begs the question, "Is it ever a bad idea to localize?"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Yes, there are situations in which we recommend against localizing a website, especially when the company is not committed to making the effort a success, or is not prepared to handle the consequences. In most cases, localization in and of itself is not the problem; rather, it's the failure to plan or the inability to invest appropriate resources that can be a company's downfall. But at other companies, the business case simply does not justify localization, which is why strategy is an essential precursor to any initiative.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">In their article, Brad Stone and Miguel Helft of the New York Times pointed out that online video providers Joost and Veoh are pulling out of some countries. The authors cite the cost of bandwidth and infrastructure to match growing popularity in markets where the companies have insufficient sales operations to drive revenue. Meanwhile, apparently other firms run bigger or better sales organizations, or have deeper pockets, since competitors like YouTube are not dropping markets. Instead, they pursue creative strategies to decrease costs while maintaining a strong presence in the market; for instance, by adjusting quality (average download speeds) during peak hours in those markets.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">In Home Depot's case, Ann Zimmerman of the Wall Street Journal reports that the company shut down its site a mere four months after launching it, after seeing disappointing results in sales figures and web traffic. Apparently, half the site's visitors were from other countries -- a "problem" that many companies would love to have, but an outcome that was not in line with the retail giant's objectives. Again, the cost of bandwidth and servers is not supported by the business model. Someone needs to inform this company of the utility of geo-location software in directing traffic: Non-U.S. traffic could resolve to a simple landing page without graphics, rich media content, or database access.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">But these highly publicized cases where the website owners don't want traffic are unusual. Far more often, we see companies that launch multilingual sites without sufficient planning, who fail to adequately promote the site, and then don't see the results they were looking for.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">When companies move ahead with multilingual content, they must make a commitment to publicizing it. It just doesn't work to assume that a target audience who has been linguistically underserved in the past will miraculously show up at your site in the months following the launch of your new content. Either they already have your site bookmarked to the English page and may not even notice your new content, or they visited before and won't think to come back because, in their minds, you don't have content for them. Either way, you need to publicize your new content and drive your target audience to the new site. Just as with your source language website, expect the traffic to build over time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">In most industries and among most communities, four months is simply not enough time for a web audience to bear fruit. In the case of a retail e-commerce site, a balanced, integrated marketing plan must be rolled out with the new website. In the case of localization for domestic markets, integrated campaigns involve tapping into ethnic media outlets; for instance, </span><a href="http://www.univision.com/portal.jhtml" style="background-color: white; color: #0046d5; font-family: arial, Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Univision</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;"> (with both television and radio properties).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">The trend in companies that dip their toes into the localization pool only to realize they don't like the temperature reaffirms one thing for us at Common Sense Advisory. Localization is still an afterthought at many businesses. Only when companies move to a point in which they use the "L-word" more frequently in strategic planning initiatives will they begin to reap the benefits, as opposed to a, "let's-just-try-it-and-see-what-happens" venture. Companies like Disney, Google, Royal Caribbean, and others invest in strategy and planning, methodically building their localization efforts. That is why we see them steadily adding languages to their global websites -- and expanding their businesses as a result of it.</span> <br />
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The national fashion magazine Elle is now collaborating with C, a lifestyle magazine that serves only California, to increase its penetration in important localized markets like Los Angeles and San Francisco. C Magazine gets the advantage of associating with a big name publication while it grows its own ad revenue. “If you run a handful of pages in Elle but not with C, for a slight increase in your total spend, you’re able to increase your presence in Elle and layer on C,” says Lesley Campoy, the publisher of C. According to Ad Age, Elle and C will also offer to help advertisers with custom programs.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">For Elle, of course, concentrating more effort on fashion-conscious California is a natural fit. But Elle’s move could set the tone for other national print publications, suggesting an emerging business model that might help make print publications more relevant. Newspapers with national readerships are already looking at localization in an effort to stave off their dropping circulations. In late 2009, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal announced plans for San Francisco editions, and The Journal more recently said it would launch a New York edition.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In reality, it’s surprising that print publications haven’t thought of this earlier. In the online world, localization has been commonplace for some time. The most obvious implementation is in the ability to search locally and get local directions instantly. But it’s the very nature of the Internet that makes serving local areas so easy. Local news, local features, local calendars, and local bulletin boards proliferate on the web.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In fact, localization is big business on the web. MSNBC.com’s EveryBlock makes it possible for consumers in fifteen cities to “track and discuss what’s new in your neighborhood” by entering an address or zip code. Patch, owned by AOL and currently operating in five states, does essentially the same thing. Going, also owned by AOL, offers consumers the latest information about “what’s going on near you” in thirty cities.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Smartphones are dramatically increasing the popularity of web-enabled local information. There are scores of locally-oriented apps on iPhone. Recently I <a href="http://www.revenews.com/barrysilverstein/foursquare-seriously/" style="color: #336633;" target="_self">reported</a> on Foursquare, which I likened to a GPS-enabled Twitter combined with enticing rewards. Foursquare’s appeal is based on users and friends checking in with other from specific locations.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Elle’s creative move into localization should be a wake up call for other print publications. Going local may very well be their route to survival.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.revenews.com/author/barrysilverstein/" rel="author" style="color: #336633;" title="Posts by Barry Silverstein">Barry Silverstein</a> </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Localization needs? <a href="http://www.lexcode.com.ph/">Lexcode </a>it!</div>Lexcode Languages and Communicationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13895622148189761733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5858479554879877900.post-48100356698739065872012-06-25T04:00:00.002-07:002012-06-25T04:00:52.852-07:00New York Times on Social Translation<div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Berlin" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">Leslie Berlin</a> did a great service to proponents of social translation by featuring a range of online translation efforts in her column for today’s New York Times, titled “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/business/17proto.html" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">A Web That Speaks Your Language</a>“. Not only did she give an overview of some of the important players in the space, she focused on reasons why human approaches to translation are important at a time when people around the world are creating online content in their native languages.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">I’ve gotten several email and Facebook messages asking for information on social translation and the idea of “the polyglot internet”. Here are a few references from my blog and around the web for those interested in finding out more about the topic.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">The phrase <a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/the-polyglot-internet/" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">“polyglot internet” comes from an essay</a> I wrote late last year as a thought piece for a discussion in Dubai hosted by the World Economic Forum. I was trying to make the case that we were likely to miss the diversity and nuance of the user-generated web unless we found better ways to translate the variety of languages we’re seeing online. To be a pain in the ass, <a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/11/01/the-polyglot-internet/" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">I turned in a version of the essay translated by Global Voices volunteers into a dozen languages</a> - my colleagues at the WEF weren’t able to print it correctly, because it included a couple of character sets they’d never seen before. (Serves me right).</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">The Times piece mentions <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/lingua/" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">Global Voices Lingua</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Lingua" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">community translation arm</a> of <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">Global Voices</a>. Solana Larsen, managing editor of Global Voices, offers <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/15/lingua-the-making-of-a-global-online-translation-project/" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">a history of the project</a>. I’d note that Lingua, like all these social translation projects, involves a technical aspect as well as dedicated translators and project managers - Lingua owes a real debt of gratitude to <a href="http://bopuc.levendis.com/weblog/" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">Boris Anthony</a>, who built the original architecture that allowed a post translated on one word press blog to “signal” the English-language “master” blog, and to <a href="http://simianuprising.com/" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">Jeremy Clarke</a>, who’s been maintaining, extending and expanding the code.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">The article leads off with a screen shot from <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/OpenTranslationProject" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">TED’s Open Translation project</a>, and quotes June Cohen, who’s championed the use of social translation to make TED’s video content available in dozens, and ultimately hundreds, of languages. June talks about the project in <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/197845" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">an interview with Newsweek</a>. I wrote about <a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/05/13/ted-embraces-social-translation/" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">the launch of the Open Translation project</a> a couple of days back, arguing that the model TED is using could be used for any high-quality, compelling internet content. It’s worth mentioning that the TED project is built around <a href="http://dotsub.com/" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">dotsub.com</a>, a powerful platform to enable subtitling and translation of web video.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Berlin’s tour of social translation also includes <a href="http://beta.meedan.net/" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">Meedan</a>, an ambitious project that uses machine translation, backed by human translation, to enable dialog between English and Arabic speakers. And she mentions efforts by <a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=transconsole&passive=true&nui=1&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Ftransconsole&followup=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Ftransconsole" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">Google </a>and by <a href="http://wordpress.org/" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">Wordpress</a> to work with volunteer translators to make software interfaces available in multiple languages.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">I’d urge people interested in this topic to look at <a href="http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">Pootle</a>, a translation framework developed by Dwayne Bailey, who has dedicated a great deal of time to making open software available in South Africa’s 11 official languages, via <a href="http://translate.org.za/" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">translate.org.za</a>. And everyone interested in social translation should be paying close attention to <a href="http://worldwidelexicon.appspot.com/api" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">Worldwide Lexicon</a>, an exciting project by Brian McConnell, which invites bilingual and multilingual people to translate texts in sections as small as single sentences or as large as whole articles.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Almost everyone mentioned in this blogpost will be attending the <a href="http://www.aspirationtech.org/events/opentranslation/2009" style="color: #3d53b3;" target="new">Open Translation Tools Summit</a>hosted by <a href="http://www.aspirationtech.org/" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">Aspiration</a> in Amsterdam this June. I’ve got high hopes that articles like Berlin’s will get more people interested in participating in these efforts, and that the hard work <a href="http://www.netsquared.org/2006/conference/confirmed-presenters/allen-gunn-executive-director-aspiration" style="color: #3d53b3; text-decoration: none;" target="new">Allen Gunn</a> at Aspiration and others are doing to bring toolmakers and project leaders together will help build a global movement around the idea of social translation.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwKh8QI6MwD8jvBcoAirQtnW5tzD_CR2VJjQ-eaagnH-2Lu_otRTA6ksVePfhAgUreoAIUDdW7AH-7JiZMtv1YaRJ0mwYZBb8msD176GGt3_PMrwefe7MnnfEuV56qnI2mEeJYBv4TBDo/s1600/21st-century-flux-wordle.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwKh8QI6MwD8jvBcoAirQtnW5tzD_CR2VJjQ-eaagnH-2Lu_otRTA6ksVePfhAgUreoAIUDdW7AH-7JiZMtv1YaRJ0mwYZBb8msD176GGt3_PMrwefe7MnnfEuV56qnI2mEeJYBv4TBDo/s320/21st-century-flux-wordle.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">The phenomenal rise in use of English has mainly taken place over the last two decades. English has reached high status world-wide because of several factors; as the mother tongue of millions of people all over the world, as the language that millions of children learn at school and the language that is used in international relations, for global communication and as the major media language. The importance of a global language has become major, in some contexts such as communication, e.g. international web-pages on the Internet, English is the only language used. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> In addition, English is used to establish and maintain connection and relationship between people with different backgrounds from different cultures.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> In this discursive essay, I will discuss the different aspects of a global language and how it will affect cultures, minority languages and communities all over the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Disposition of body<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Definition of Lingua Franca<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Do we need a global language?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Should English be a global language? Why/Why not?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Which standard will be the Standard? / Strict or loose standards?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Will native speakers take advantage?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Method<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Before I started to write the essay, I read relevant literature. David Crystal’s <i>“English as a Global language</i>” contains a lot of useful information, and so does <i>“Sociolinguistics</i>” by Peter Trudgill. In order to retrieve I want different aspects on the subject, I also used the Internet for research.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> I was also interested in average people’s opinion, therefore I asked approximately 40 people of different backgrounds, age and gender what they think of English as a global language.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">1.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> Definition of Lingua Franca</span></b><span lang="EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Many people do not know what a lingua franca is, therefore I will start by defining the term <i>Lingua Franca </i>and also tell a bit about its history.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">1.1<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Lingua franca is Latin and means “French language”. The first text written in a lingua franca is from 1353, but a simpler form of it appeared in the 11<sup>th</sup> century. The origin of this term is from the modern era when French became the language mostly used in commerce and diplomacy between the European countries. Not only French serves as a lingua franca, several European languages had the same status; e.g. English, Greek, Latin and German. The term lingua franca became so common that it continued to be used for any “universal” language. (</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca" style="color: purple;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca</a> 2005</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">1.2<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> A lingua franca can be any language which is used for communication among people who have no native language in common. In many of the former European colonies in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>, French or English are used as the language of communication in trade and business. (Trudgill 2000:132) In some parts of <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>, other African lingua francas, such as Swahili and Hausa, are used. These languages are indigenous in some countries and have become used because of political reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> When a language is used as a lingua franca, it undergoes a certain amount of reduction and simplification. The simplification often refers to getting rid of irregularities and grammatical gender in the lingua franca. This happens because adults are, unlike children, generally not good language learners, and therefore need a simplified version of the language. (Trudgill 2000:165)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><ol start="2" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Should English be the Global Language?<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
</ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">People in general have different opinions on English as a “global” language. There are positive as well as negative aspects of this. Do we need a global language? Why do we need it? Why should English be the best option?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">2.1<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Translation has always played a central role in interaction between people with different languages and language skills. Thousands of years ago, monarchs, ambassadors and merchants had to rely on someone to translate. But the more linguistically mixed the community got, the less they could rely on individuals to ensure their communication. Most of these problems have been solved with a lingua franca or a “pidgin”<b>. </b>A<b> </b>pidgin is a </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">language created, usually spontaneously, from a mixture of other languages as a means of communication between speakers of different languages Pidgins have simple grammar and few synonyms.</span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">The prospect that a lingua franca might be needed for the whole world is something that has arisen in the twentieth century. Since the 1950s, many international organisations have come into being e.g. the UN and the World Bank. Also political groupings e.g. The European Union and The Commonwealth have come into being. The pressure to make an agreement concerning one language has become urgent, but it is a sensitive issue. (Crystal 2003: 12-13)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> The need for a global language is mainly appreciated by the international academic and business communities, but also by individuals as the world becomes more and more global. (Crystal 2003: 12-13)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">2.2<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Why English has grown as much as it has, and why it might be seen as the best option for a global language have more than one answer. One is the geographical-historical reasons, and another is the socio-cultural. The geographical-historical part explains how English has reached its position and the socio-cultural explains how and why it remains that way. (Crystal 2003: 29)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">2.2.1<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">English came to <st1:country-region w:st="on">England</st1:country-region> from northern Europe during the fifth century and started to spread around the <st1:place w:st="on">British Isles</st1:place>. (Crystal 2003: 30)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> The historical movement of English around the world began with the expeditions to Asia and <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region> and continued with the colonial developments in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> and the South Pacific. When many colonies became independent during the mid-twentieth century, they kept English as their official language or semi-official language. This led to a major step forward for the English language; it is represented on every continent and on islands in the three major oceans, making the label “global language” a reality. (Crystal 2003: 29)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">2.2.1<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">The socio-cultural aspect looks at the way people in many ways have become dependent on English for their social life and for their economic well-being. English is the language of many business and political domains and also the language of entertainment such as television, the film industry, the music business, communication (internet, telecommunication and computers) and safety. (Crystal 2003: 29)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">2.2.2<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Today’s status of English has mainly two reasons; the expansion of the British colonial power and the emergence of the economical power of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The latter is what scientist argue explain the status of English in the world today. (Crystal 2003: 59)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><ol start="3" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Positive and Negative Aspects on English as a Global Language</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">3.1 Positive aspects of English as a Global Language</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">According to Buck (2005), English has, without doubt, reached the top position in the language hierarchy. Almost 30 % of the population are already “reasonably competent” in English. As the language of commerce, economy and politics</span>, <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">knowledge of and fluency in that language is helpful when participating in these fields</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">. The economic power houses, the political bodies and commercial organisations also use English as their language of communication. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">More than 85% of the scientific, technological and academic production in the world today is performed in English. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">By using English you are able to communicate with people in almost all countries all over the world. English is the most widely spoken language with regards to number of countries, even though Chinese, Hindi and Spanish have more native speakers. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" style="color: purple;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language</a> 2005)</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> The case might be that even in countries where one of the other languages is spoken you will be able to communicate with the inhabitants, using English as a lingua franca. It is often taken for granted that one speaks English and when someone does not, one might be looked upon suspiciously.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> I asked approximately 40 people from different backgrounds, different age and with different nationalities which language they would prefer as a global language and the majority answered English. The following reasons were given: It is the language you hear and read every day; the younger generations have learned it in school and it would be the best global language because it is the most spread all over the world. The people, who disagreed, said that Spanish would be the best global language, because it has more native speakers than English.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> 3.2 Negative aspects of English as a Global Language</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 33pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Even though there are many positive aspects of having a global language, there are negative aspects as well. How would it be possible to carry through a global language? Are there any dangers with having a global language?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> A global language might cultivate an elite class with native speakers, who take advantage of the possibility to think and work quickly in their mother-tongue. If this was the case they might manipulate it to their advantage at the expense of those who has another language as their mother-tongue and in this way create a linguistic gap between people. (Crystal 2003: 14-15)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> English has a history, sometimes cruel and violent with colonialism and war, and introducing English as the<i> </i>global language might be seen as a threat of future dominance. Perhaps a global language will make people unwilling or unable to learn other languages and make other languages unnecessary. (Crystal 2003: 15)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">One of the “risks” having only one language is that the chosen language may become very technical and “impoverished” for non-native speakers, e.g. the Eskimos, who have several words for snow, because they need it. They would probably not be able to express themselves properly if they only had one word for snow. And Swedish people would not be able to use the word “lagom”, a word which says a lot about the Swedish society and people.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Many of the people who answered my question about “English as a Global Language”, expressed a worry that if we only had one language, they would feel “poor” when it comes to expressing feelings and emotions in a language that is not their mother-tongue, that they would not know enough words to be able to really express how and what they feel.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21pt;"><br />
</div><ol start="4" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Standards – which standard should be used? Strict or loose standards?</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">English is the mother-tongue of millions of people in different parts of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">If English were to become a global language, which standard of the language would be the global standard? Perhaps the standards would become looser.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> 4.1. </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Standard English is the English that is usually used in print. It is also the English <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> which is normally taught in school and to non-native speakers learning English.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> This is also the standard that is spoken among educated people and used for news broadcasts. (Trudgill 2000: 5-6)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 21pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Historically, the British Standard developed from the south-east part of <st1:country-region w:st="on">England</st1:country-region> (the area around <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>). These dialects were spoken in court, used in law and by the government. (</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English" style="color: purple;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English</a></span><span lang="EN"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">2005)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> Standard English has a widely accepted grammar, and an accent that comes with this standard, the British English accent, also known as the “Oxford English”, is the accent that is taught is schools. (Trudgill 2000:6-7) Furthermore this English has a major cultural influence, especially on the languages in the former Commonwealth countries, e.g. <st1:country-region w:st="on">South Africa</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>, and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> as well as the European Union. (</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English" style="color: purple;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English</a> 2005 )</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> 4.2 </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">We often hear about “American-English”, “South African-English” or other <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> “Englishes”, but no such terms really exist. The different types of English are based on the British English but have developed grammatical and vocabulary differences because of influence and “loanwords” from other languages.(Trudgill 2000:6-7)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><ol start="5" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Minor Languages and cultures<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
</ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">What will happen to minor cultures and languages if we introduce a global language?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> An introduction of a global language might lead to discrimination of other languages. Losing a language equals losing identity. The language is much more than just a tool for communication. According to Trudgill there is an intimate relation between language and culture and a large homogenisation of culture might lead to a shift in language where native people adopt another language and eventually the old language may die out. There is a difference between “language death” and “language murder”. Language death is when a language disappears naturally; its </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">speakers are leaving it voluntarily, but “language murder” means that the killer language actively discourages use of other languages. Minority languages may be removed from the media and educational systems.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> English is referred to as a “killer language”, which means that it is a </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">dominant language learned subtractive, at the cost of the mother tongues, rather than additively.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">(</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_language" style="color: purple;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_language</a> 2005)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> In the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> there have been a few “English Only” movements, the first one in 1803, when they </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">banned the speaking of French among the population in</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Louisiana</st1:state></st1:place>. After that, several attempts to remove Spanish and French have taken place. English is declared as the official language in several states in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The English-Only movements have been rejected by linguistics; they mean that a language does not create political unity, it takes more than that.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> The use of one single language in a community is no guarantee for social harmony or mutual understanding. This has been proven several times during the history, e.g. American Civil War, Spanish Civil War and former <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Yugoslavia</st1:place></st1:country-region>. (Crystal 2003:16)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">This essay has shown that the creation of a global language has numerous advantages and disadvantages. Mutual intelligibility, great career opportunities and reduced administrative costs are some of the advantages a global language would give. The disadvantages are that English is closely linked to the British and the American cultures and history and is therefore not a “neutral” language. Perhaps a language with less historical and cultural connections would be a better option? We are in need of an international language for communication, politics, trade and security, but at the same time we are worried about language death, the advantages native speakers will have and all the disadvantages non-native speakers will face. English is growing, it is a strong language, and its future seems bright. My opinion is that if there will ever be an international language, English is the best option. It is a strong, well developed language with millions of speakers.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoCommentText" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Even if a global language might be important, different languages are of importance for their culture and for the development of their native speakers. Languages make the world more interesting and more alive.</span></div>Lexcode Languages and Communicationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13895622148189761733noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5858479554879877900.post-33006684242698691952012-06-18T02:09:00.002-07:002012-06-18T02:13:53.574-07:00It's Misoon's Special Day!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj517JvwdSf0dCvfkkqWAATecTLUe8MFrbp7OgGXsrsqtyHPhQTa0ED-oPELxf_oGQKQREUbGnnwjO3zzd6QIo8DZVFMx49-Fm1uTHuMA3lfuy1F-_B6ngy12SNcu1agTIp5dcIC8kQL6Q/s1600/misoon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj517JvwdSf0dCvfkkqWAATecTLUe8MFrbp7OgGXsrsqtyHPhQTa0ED-oPELxf_oGQKQREUbGnnwjO3zzd6QIo8DZVFMx49-Fm1uTHuMA3lfuy1F-_B6ngy12SNcu1agTIp5dcIC8kQL6Q/s320/misoon.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Note: the following are words in the non-strictest sense, being that some are technical terms, some have been coined, while others actually appear in the dictionary. Depending on which school of thought you subscribe to, lists may very on the basis of “what constitutes a word” (and some may argue simply that letters constitute a word).</span></h2><div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Additional note: tying for the #7 spot is the word “hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian.” It also contains 30 letters. Let its omission be justified by saying this list, in and of itself, is hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian (i.e. “that which pertains to extremely long words”).</div><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br />
</span></div><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; text-align: left;">10. Honorificabilitudinitatibus</h2><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5SIKqOPIGt0" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">This 27-letter word coined by <a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-literary-romances.php" target="_blank" title="Top 10 Literary Romances">Shakespeare</a>, in his comedy <em>Love’s Labour’s Lost</em>, is a testament to the Bard’s own intralexiconic skills. Meaning “the state of being able to achieve honors,” the word is the longest one in the English language with alternating consonants and vowels (Take a look for yourself….yep.).</div><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; text-align: left;">9. Antidisestablishmentarianism</h2><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/K_CzVndr_QE" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Containing 28-letters, antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest proper word, consisting of proper and compatible root and affix attachments. After all the Lego blocks have been snapped together, the word comes to mean “the movement or ideology that opposes disestablishment (i.e. the separation of church and state, as in the movement that took place in 1860’s England).” The word has a dated relevance, or else is the greatest living thing in a world history nerd’s vocabulary.</div><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; text-align: left;">8. Floccinaucinihilipilification</h2><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4q7Ki1Ubg-w" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-top: 3px; text-align: left;"><ins style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: inline-table; height: 250px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 300px;"><ins id="aswift_1_anchor" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: block; height: 250px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 300px;"><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="250" hspace="0" id="aswift_1" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="aswift_1" scrolling="no" style="left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px;" vspace="0" width="300"></iframe></ins></ins></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">This 29-letter word, pieced together from Latin stems, means simply “the deeming of something to be <a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-ten-awesome-game-show-moments.php" target="_blank" title="Top 10 Awesome Game Show Moments">trivial</a>.” One letter more than antidisestablishmentarianism, and just as big of a mouthful, it is a valid dictionary entry with a usefulness that is much greater than anything it might be placed beside contextually. Some readers might even be able to maintain a floccinaucinihilipilification for this list.</div><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; text-align: left;">7. Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism</h2><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/I3CyWUAZ22o" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">This 30-letter word is a technical one for a type of inherited <a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-sickliest-first-ladies.php" target="_blank" title="Top 10 Sickliest First Ladies">disorder</a>. An individual with such a disorder resembles someone with Pseudohypoparathyroidism Type 1A, but doesn’t possess a deficiency in calcium or PTH levels (which mark the essential differences between Pseudohypoparathyroidism 1A and Hypoparathyroidism).</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">To put it far more basically, the word is much more fun to say than to have.</div><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; text-align: left;">6. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious</h2><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wD34FE0Dm7k" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">This 34-letter word, which was coined by song-writers Richard and Robert Sherman in the musical film <em><a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-movie-trailer-recuts-remixes.php" target="_blank" title="Top 10 Movie Trailer Recuts">Mary Poppins</a></em>, is completely made-up, the sum of word parts that don’t even follow proper prefix/suffix placement protocol; the “-istic” following “fragil-” is a suffix, which should signify a word’s end. However, it is followed by the prefix “ex-,” where a new, separate word should begin. Nonetheless, it is just another example of a phrase being irretrievably carried off by and imbedded within the culture into which it was born. Just as how words are invented all the time in rap culture, and swallowed up by a constantly-evolving (or devolving) language system.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">The word, containing definable roots, means something like “Atoning for educability through delicate beauty.” Miss Poppins, however, would insist the word means “something to say when you have nothing to say.”</div><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; text-align: left;">5. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis</h2><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Qtm1Ot15y1I" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">The term refers to a kind of lung disease caused by a finely-powdered silica dust. This word, containing 45 letters, does appear in the dictionary, but was created primarily just for the sake of a long word. An equivalent of what the word is going for, albeit by taking the long way home, is a condition simply called silicosis. Any <a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-famous-hypochondriacs.php" target="_blank" title="Top 10 Famous Hypochondriacs">doctor</a> diagnosing the former is obviously getting paid by the hour.</div><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; text-align: left;">4. Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic</h2><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="312" src="http://www.xtranormal.com/xtraplayr/12412110/hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia" width="504"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">This 52-letter word was engendered by Dr. Edward Strother in order to describe spa waters of Bath, England in a single word. The sum of individually-meaningful parts, the word altogether means roughly, “equally salty, calcium-rich, waxy, containing aluminum and copper, and vitriolic.” Of course this word has very few applications elsewhere. Unless maybe you were talking about some kind of 9V-battery-powered robotic <a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-strange-stock-photos.php" target="_blank" title="Top 10 Weird & Strange Stock Photos">chicken</a> wing.</div><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; text-align: left;">3. Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelito-katakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoio-siraiobaphetraganopterygon</h2><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iTViO8ZIzRs" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">This word, which shan’t be uttered twice, is a transliteration of a word coined by Greek author Aristophanes in his comic play <em>Assemblywomen</em>. Containing 171 letters, it is the longest word appearing in literature and refers to a fictional dish; the word quite literally is just the smooshing together of the 17 ingredients contained within (including sharks, <a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-funny-demotivational-posters-feauring-animals.php" target="_blank" title="Top 10 Funny Demotivational Posters Feauring Animals">pigeons</a>, honey, and various unappetizing animal parts). Don’t expect to see this listed on any menu, as there surely wouldn’t be enough room to list anything else.</div><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; text-align: left;">2. Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenyl-<br />
alanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamyl-<br />
glycylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylvalylthreonyl-<br />
leucylglycylaspartylprolylglycylisoleucylglutamylglutaminyl-<br />
serylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleucylglutamy-<br />
lalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucylglutamylleucylglycylisoleucyl-<br />
prolylphenylalanylserylaspartylprolylleucylalanylaspartylglycylproly-<br />
lthreonylisoleucylglutaminylaspfraginylalanylthreonylleucylarginy-<br />
lalanylphenylalanylalanylalanylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanyl-<br />
glutaminylcysteinylphenylalanylglutamylmethionylleucylalany-<br />
lleucylisoleucylarginylglutaminyllysylhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucyl-<br />
prolylisoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparaginy-<br />
lleucylvalylphenylalanylasparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartyl-glutamylphenylalanyltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamylly-sylvalylglycylvalylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalyl-prolylvalylglutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylphenylalanylarginyl-glutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginylvalylalanyl-prolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylprolylaspartylalanyl-aspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanyl-seryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylseryl-arginylalanylglycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginyl-arginylalanylalanylleucylprolylleucylasparaginylhistidylleucylvalyl-alanyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparaginylalanylalanylprolyl-prolylleucylglutaminylglycylphenylalanylglycylisoleucylserylalanyl-prolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalanyl-glycylalanylalanylglycylalanylisoleucylserylglycylserylalanylisoleucyl-valyllysylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylhistidylasparaginy-lisoleucylglutamylprolylglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylalanyl-leucyllysylvalylphenylalanylvalylglutaminylprolylmethionyllysylalanyl-alanylthreonylarginylserine</h2><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KOdGx76Q8eo" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">What you just stared at is the 1913-letter chemical name for tryptophan synthetase, a protein (an enzyme, to be exact) with 267 amino acids. Of course, it’s completely impractical to actually utter this prankster’s approach to making huge words (the largest one in print), and just looking at it for too long might even lead you to believe there are words and phrases hidden in there like a word search (if you look closely the word “party” shows up a few times, as does something resembling “asparagus”). Of course, when you cut-and-paste such a word (rather than risk missing even a single letter, for accuracy’s sake), you risk looking like an <a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-awkward-bible-stories.php" target="_blank" title="Top 10 Awkward Bible Stories">ass</a> by not thoroughly combing through that contrived brick-o’-letters.</div><h2 style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; text-align: left;">1. [Titin’s Chemical Name]</h2><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Fx0kMizIioI" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">This 189,819-letter word shall not be printed in its entirety, partially because it is literally too big to print (without filling the space of a short novella that is), and would be a waste of time and hard drive space. Along the same lines as the last example, it is a derivation of the chemical components that comprise the protein; abridged, the word is “Methionylthreonylthreonyl…isoleucine,” really not worth seeing sprawled-out if for a single-purpose <a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-cartoon-novelty-songs-under-2-minutes.php" target="_blank" title="Top 10 Cartoon Novelty Songs Under 2 Minutes">novelty</a> (the only real purpose a chemical name could possibly serve).</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><strong>Written By Ryan Thomas</strong></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><br />
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Read more: <a href="http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-longest-words-in-the-english-language.php#ixzz1xeWwIQzU" style="color: #003399;">http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-longest-words-in-the-english-language.php#ixzz1xeWwIQzU</a></span>Lexcode Languages and Communicationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13895622148189761733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5858479554879877900.post-6976883278284037572012-06-11T00:36:00.000-07:002012-06-11T00:36:45.367-07:00FUNNY TRANSLATIONS INTO ENGLISH<ol><li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Tokyo Hotel:</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span> Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not a person to do such thing is please not to read notis.<br />
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<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Bucharest hotel lobby:<br />
</span>The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.<br />
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<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Leipzig elevator:<br />
</span>Do not enter the lift backwards, and only when lit up.<br />
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<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Belgrade hotel elevator</span><span style="color: #666666;">:</span><br />
To move the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then going alphabetically by national order.<br />
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<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Paris hotel elevator:</span><br />
Please leave your values at the front desk.<br />
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<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a hotel in Athens:</span><br />
Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 a.m. daily.<br />
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<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Yugoslavian hotel:</span><br />
The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid.<br />
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<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Japanese hotel:</span><br />
You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.<br />
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<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian Orthodox monastery:<br />
</span> You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists, and writers are buried daily except Thursdays.<br />
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</li>
<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers:</span><br />
Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascension.<br />
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<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:</span><br />
Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.<br />
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<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">On the menu of a Polish hotel:<br />
</span> Salad a firm's own make; limpid red beet soup with cheesy dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted duck let loose; beef rashers beaten up in the country people's fashion.<br />
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<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop:<br />
</span> Ladies may have a fit upstairs.<br />
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</li>
<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Bangkok dry cleaner's:<br />
</span> Drop your trousers here for best results.<br />
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</li>
<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">Outside a Paris dress shop:<br />
</span> Dresses for street walking.<br />
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<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Rhodes tailor shop:<br />
</span> Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation.<br />
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</li>
<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">From the Soviet Weekly:<br />
</span> There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Arts by 15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years.<br />
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</li>
<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Zurich hotel:<br />
</span> Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the opposite sex in the bedroom, it is suggested that the lobby be used for this purpose.<br />
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<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist:<br />
</span> Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists.<br />
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<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Rome laundry:</span><br />
Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time.<br />
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</li>
<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Czechoslovakian tourist agency:<br />
</span> Take one of our horse-driven city tours - we guarantee no miscarriages.<br />
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</li>
<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand:<br />
</span> Would you like to ride on your own ass?<br />
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</li>
<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Swiss mountain inn:<br />
</span> Special today - no ice cream. (kein Eis?)<br />
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<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Bangkok temple:<br />
</span> It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a man.<br />
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<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Tokyo bar:<br />
</span> Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.<br />
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</li>
<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Copenhagen airline ticket office:<br />
</span> We take your bags and send them in all directions.<br />
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</li>
<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">On the door of a Moscow hotel room:<br />
</span> If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it.<br />
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<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Norwegian cocktail lounge:<br />
</span> Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.<br />
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</li>
<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Budapest zoo:<br />
</span> Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food, give it to the guard on duty.<br />
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</li>
<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In the office of a Rome doctor:<br />
</span> Specialist in women and other diseases.<br />
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</li>
<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In an Acapulco hotel:</span><br />
The manager has personally passed all the water served here.<br />
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</li>
<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Tokyo shop:<br />
</span> Our nylons cost more than common, but you'll find they are best in the long run.<br />
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</li>
<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a Japanese information booklet about using a hotel air conditioner:<br />
</span> Cooles and Heates: If you want just condition of warm in your room, please control yourself.<br />
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</li>
<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a brochure of a car rental firm in Tokyo:<br />
</span> When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage then tootle him with vigor.<br />
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</li>
<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance:<br />
</span> - English well talking.<br />
- Here speeching American.<br />
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<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">On a Malaga freeway:<br />
</span>Locals for sale or rent. <i> <span style="color: grey; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(thanks to O.B.)</span></i><br />
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<li type="1"><span style="color: #999999;">In a hotel in Bruges:<br />
</span> Bathroom light operates with motion sensor. Turns off approx. 15 minutes after last registered motion.<i> <span style="color: grey; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(thanks to O.P.)</span></i> <br />
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<li><span style="color: #999999;">On a Bulgarian web site:<br />
</span> You may visit this webpage, only if you are logged in or it is unavailable. <i> <span style="color: grey;">(thanks to A.M.)</span></i> <br />
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<li><span style="color: #999999;">In an East African newspaper: <br />
</span> A new swimming pool is rapidly taking shape since the contractors have thrown in the bulk of their workers. <br />
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</li>
<li><span style="color: #999999;">In a Czechoslovakian tourist agency: </span><br />
Take one of our horse-driven city tours. We guarantee no miscarriages. <br />
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</li>
<li><span style="color: #999999;">Detour sign in Kyushi, Japan: <br />
</span> Stop: Drive Sideways. </li>
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9. A good translator doesn't need a dictionary.<br />
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8. There's no difference between translation and interpretation.<br />
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7. Translators don't mind working nights and weekends at no extra charge.<br />
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6. Translators don't need to understand what they're translating.<br />
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5. A good translator doesn't need proofing or editing.<br />
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4. Becoming a translator is an easy way to get rich quick.<br />
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3. Translation is just typing in a foreign language.<br />
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2. A translator costs $49.95 at Radio Shack and runs on two 'C' batteries.<br />
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And the #1 misconception about translation and translators:<br />
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1. That marketing copy that took a team of 20 people two months to put together can be translated overnight by one Person and still retain the same impact as the original.</span></span><br />
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<span class="med1" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="ln_height" id="post_text_222816">Please visit<a href="http://www.lexcode.com.ph/"> Lexcode Inc</a> for your translation and interpretation needs! Lexcode It! </span></span>Lexcode Languages and Communicationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13895622148189761733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5858479554879877900.post-26425969958388386522012-06-11T00:19:00.000-07:002012-06-11T00:19:27.605-07:00What Makes a Translator?<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">The "prison of language is only temporary…someday a merciful guard ? the perfect translator ? will come along with his keys and let us out," Wendy Lesser wrote in an article, "The Mysteries of Translation," in the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2002. The following questions remain, however: Who is this translator? What does he do? And what skills should he possess? <br />
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Simply put, a translator is a person who recreates a text in another language, attempting to keep a delicate balance between being so literal that the text sounds awkward and unnatural in the new language or being so free that the text has become virtually unrecognizable. A translator has to not only translate the words, but also the concepts. In other words, a translator unlocks the prison of language, as Ms. Lesser said, and helps a text break free of its limited original language, culture, and audience. This service is an unfortunately under-appreciated art and craft. <br />
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To do all the above, a translator must have the following things: a native or near-native level of proficiency in both the source language (the language to be translated from) and the target language (the language to be translated to); the ability to thoroughly understand all that a text says and implies; and excellent writing and editing skills. Ideally, the translator would also have a lot of knowledge about both the source and target language cultures, as this affects word usage and meaning, as well as about the author of the original document and his style of writing. <br />
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It all sounds rather formidable, certainly, but not impossible. There are, in fact, many excellent practitioners out there who fulfill these hefty requirements, but the tiny number of translated books published in the United States each year reveals the sad fact that few people take up this challenging and stimulating work. If only more people would join the ranks of translators and help unlock the prison of language. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">By Brett Jocelyn Epstein </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;"><br />
</span>Lexcode Languages and Communicationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13895622148189761733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5858479554879877900.post-18899172749033472592012-06-11T00:16:00.000-07:002012-06-11T00:16:12.638-07:00To Be a Good Translator<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;"><br />
In addition to being a member of our country, we are members of the world community, and this gives us a global identity. Therefore, it is quite natural for us to think about world affairs and cooperate in solving the world's problems. To do so, the first and most important tool is "language," which is socially determined. Our beliefs and ideologies are always reflected in our way of talking, although the connections are hidden and only "critical language study" reveals these hidden connections in discourse.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">Furthermore, we know that a nation's culture flourishes by interacting with other cultures. Cultural variety opens our eyes to human rights, but cultural variety can only be recognized through discussions, which leads us back to the major tool for discussion: "language." </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">The role of language in the developing world is materialized through "translating," and since critical language study is concerned with the processes of producing and interpreting texts and with the way these cognitive processes are socially shaped, it can be considered as an alternative approach to translation studies. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">The world is becoming smaller and smaller as the systems of communication and information are developing and becoming more and more sophisticated. In the process of such a rapid exchange of information and for the purpose of improving cultural contacts, one thing is inevitable, and that is "translating." This is why there is a need for competent translators and interpreters. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">As mentioned earlier, the whole world is undergoing complex changes in different areas such as technology and education. These changes necessarily have an important bearing on systems of higher education, including translator training programs. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">According to Shahvali (1997), theoretical knowledge and practical skills alone are not adequate to prepare students to face the developments in the field. There is a need for ability to adapt; therefore, it is necessary to focus on students' self-updating and to develop their relevant mental, communicative, and planning skills. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">Training translators is an important task which should be given a high priority. The service that translators render to enhance cultures and nurture languages has been significant throughout history. Translators are the agents for transferring messages from one language to another, while preserving the underlying cultural and discoursal ideas and values (Azabdaftary, 1996).</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">The translator's task is to create conditions under which the source language author and the target language reader can interact with one another (Lotfipour, 1997). The translator uses the core meaning present in the source text to create a new whole, namely, the target text (Farahzad, 1998). </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">Bearing these facts in mind, the question is: what skills are needed to promote translating ability? And how can one become a good translator? </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">The first step is extensive reading of different translations of different kinds of texts, since translating requires active knowledge, while analyzing and evaluating different translations requires passive knowledge. Therefore, receptive skills should be developed before the productive ones; i.e. by reinforcing their passive knowledge, students will eventually improve their active knowledge. Receptive skills improve the students' language intuition and make them ready for actual translating. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">A good translator is someone who has a comprehensive knowledge of both source and target languages. Students should read different genres in both source and target languages including modern literature, contemporary prose, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, announcements, instructions, etc. Being familiar with all these genres is important, since they implicitly transfer culture-specific aspects of a language. Specialized readings are also suggested: reading recently published articles and journals on theoretical and practical aspects of translation. The articles will not only improve the students' reading skill in general, but also give them insights which will subconsciously be applied when actually translating.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">"Writing" skills, i.e. the ability to write smoothly and correctly in both source and target languages, are also important. Writing is in fact the main job of a translator. Students should become familiar with different styles of writing and techniques and principles of editing and punctuation in both source and target languages. Editing and punctuation improve the quality and readability of the translation (Razmjou, 2002). </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">Moreover, translation trainees should have a good ear for both source and target languages; i.e. they should be alert to pick up various expressions, idioms, and specific vocabulary and their uses, and store them in their minds to be used later. This is in fact what we call improving one's "intuition." Intuition is not something to be developed in a vacuum; rather, it needs practice and a solid background. It needs both the support of theory and the experience of practice. Language intuition is a must for a competent translator.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">One of the most important points to consider in the act of translating is understanding the value of the source text within the framework of the source-language discourse. To develop this understanding, the translator must be aware of the cultural differences and the various discoursal strategies in the source and target languages. Therefore, the hidden structure of the source text should be discovered through the use of various discoursal strategies by the translator.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">A good translator should be familiar with the culture, customs, and social settings of the source and target language speakers. She should also be familiar with different registers, styles of speaking, and social stratification of both languages. This socio-cultural awareness, can improve the quality of the students' translations to a great extent. According to Hatim and Mason (1990), the social context in translating a text is probably a more important variable than its genre. The act of translating takes place in the socio-cultural context. Consequently, it is important to judge translating activity only within a social context.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">After developing a good competence in both source and target languages, actual translating may begin. But there is a middle stage between the competence-developing stage and actual translating: becoming aware of various information-providing sources and learning how to use them. These sources include: different monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, encyclopedias, and the Internet. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">Using dictionaries is a technical skill in itself. Not all students know how to use dictionaries appropriately. Words have different meanings in different contexts, and usually monolingual dictionaries are of utmost value in this regard. Students need a great deal of practice to find the intended meaning of words in a particular context, using monolingual dictionaries. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">Translation trainees also need to be familiar with the syntax of indirect speech and various figures of speech in the source language such as hyperbole, irony, meiosis, and implicatures. Awareness of these figures of speech will reinforce students' creativity and change their passive knowledge into active skill.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">While there is a strong emphasis on developing source and target language competencies, the <i>ways</i> in which students can develop them should not be neglected. Group work and cooperation with peers can always lead the translating process to better results. Students who practice translation with their peers will be able to solve problems more easily and will also more rapidly develop self-confidence and decision-making techniques (Razmjou, 2002). Although there is a possibility of making mistakes during group work, the experience of making, detecting, and correcting mistakes will make the students' minds open and alert. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">Another important point is that successful translators usually choose one specific kind of texts for translating and continue to work only in that area; for example a translator might translate only literary works, scientific books, or journalistic texts. Even while translating literary works, some translators might choose only to translate poetry, short stories, or novels. Even more specific than that, some translators choose a particular author and translate only her or his works. The reason is that the more they translate the works of a particular author, the more they will become familiar with her or his mind, way of thinking, and style of writing. And the more familiar is the translator with the style of a writer, the better the translation will be. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">Translation needs to be practiced in an academic environment in which trainees work on both practical tasks under the supervision of their teachers and theoretical aspects to enhance their knowledge. In an academic environment, recently published articles, journals and books on translation are available to the trainees, who thus become familiar with good translators and their work by reading them and then comparing them with the original texts. In this way, trainees will develop their power of observation, insight, and decision-making, which in turn will lead them to enhance their motivation and improve their translating skills. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">Therefore, translation studies has now been recognized as an important discipline and has become an independent major, separate from foreign-language studies, in universities. This reflects the recognition of the fact that not everybody who knows a foreign language can be a translator, as it is commonly and mistakenly believed. Translation is the key to international understanding. So in this vast world of communication and information overload, we need competent translators who have both the theoretical knowledge and practical skills to do their jobs well. The importance of theoretical knowledge lies in the fact that it helps translators acquire an understanding of how linguistic choices in texts reflect other relationships between senders and receivers, such as power relationships, and how texts are sometimes used to maintain or create social inequalities (Fairclough, 1989). </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">Finally, it is important to know that it takes much more than a dictionary to be a good translator, and translators are not made overnight. To be a good translator requires a sizeable investment in both source and target languages. It is one of the most challenging tasks to switch safely and faithfully between two universes of discourse. Only a sophisticated and systematic treatment of translation education can lead to the development of successful translators. And the most arduous part of the journey starts when translation trainees leave their universities. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Century Gothic;">By Leila Razmjou</span>Lexcode Languages and Communicationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13895622148189761733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5858479554879877900.post-61508328573167457952012-06-06T23:04:00.003-07:002012-06-06T23:18:11.068-07:00Lexcode Philippines Provides Spanish Interpretation Service for United Nations Development Programme Conference<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtcD9cz4lhMMF58Ahq7iU1pRgQw8_8xmMUt1ZuRsg-AXhu-3FP6eJqHZBNRyg31IiCPlt8Plc-EtG8PJyGFY8SHK2YPMyqkxtJGPEXX3FPWItRl2cI4-fgP8Sd_GvQw0xu4FCDAq2yM8g/s1600/Merge.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtcD9cz4lhMMF58Ahq7iU1pRgQw8_8xmMUt1ZuRsg-AXhu-3FP6eJqHZBNRyg31IiCPlt8Plc-EtG8PJyGFY8SHK2YPMyqkxtJGPEXX3FPWItRl2cI4-fgP8Sd_GvQw0xu4FCDAq2yM8g/s320/Merge.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">(<a href="http://www.tourism.gov.ph/%20">Manila, Philippines</a>)- <a href="http://www.lexcode.com.ph/">Lexcode Inc</a>, the number 1 translation and interpretation company in the country again successfully provided the interpretation service for a 2-day event of <a href="http://philippines.unfpa.org/">United Nations Development Programme</a> which was held last June 4-5, 2012 in 3 different venues within the metro; UNDP/UNFPA Conference Room in RCBC Plaza Makati, Astoria Plaza- Ortigas Center and <a href="http://www.neda.gov.ph/%20">NEDA Headquarters-Ortigas Center. </a></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> The event focused on the Colombia South-South Cooperation Mission to the Philippines. Specifically, its mission is to explore the relationships among Asian countries with regard to the Guideline of Foreign policy and identifying the possibility of important actions in the field of international cooperation. Furthermore, the project aimed to raise the question on what should be the role of a country in the <a href="http://www.un.org/en/">(United Nation) UN System</a>, particularly in the (United Nations Development Programme) UNDP. There were 14 Colombian delegates who attended the conference and 2 of them were accompanied by our Spanish interpreters. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Lexcode Inc. also provide 2 Spanish documenters to carry out the manuscript of the 2-day proceeding. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The morning session of June 4 took place in RCBC Plaza. It covered different 2 areas of discussion. First, was on the social protection in the Philippines. Secondly, they tackled on climate change and innovations in agriculture. On the other hand, the afternoon session covered one important issue which was on Philippine Development Plan of 2011-2016. The session brought up the five strategies as solution on the question of why the inclusive growth of the Philippines becomes elusive. The session was held in Astoria Plaza- Ortigas Center and was attended by officials of <a href="http://www.neda.gov.ph/">National Economic Development Authority (NEDA).</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">June 5, 2012 was the 2<sup>nd</sup> day of the Colombia South-South Cooperation Mission to the Philippines. The conference took place in the headquarters of NEDA in Ortigas Center. The group was divided into three table discussions. It was still attended by the same officials from NEDA and the 14 Colombian delegates. Three topics were given attention to, namely: Climate Change, Government Plan on Funds/Funding, and Issues on Agriculture. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Thereafter, a debriefing was held in the boardroom where the three groups gathered in one big table and shared what are their specific plans for the next few months after being acquainted of each countries activity/ties with regard to the different social issues. The event ended at 4PM and the delegates from <a href="http://www.colombia.travel/">Colombia</a> and <a href="http://www.tourism.gov.ph/%20">Philippines </a>came up with plans that would really support each country’s missions and advocacies in dealing with the different social issues that evidently affects the economy and social status of every citizen. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.lexcode.com.ph/">Lexcode Philippines</a> is indeed very proud that we were a great instrument of help to these entities in liaising the information between two different nationalities. <a href="http://philippines.unfpa.org/">UNDP </a>extended their appreciation to Lexcode, that without the assistance of our Spanish interpreters, the event wouldn’t have been as successful as it was. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In this light, Lexcode will continue to be of service to similar events like this and will continue to rock in the interpretation services. <a href="http://www.lexcode.com.ph/">LEXCODE IT</a>! </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">By: J. Salas (Certified Lexcodian) </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jeff and Yvonne with the Spanish interpreters and a UNDP Ph officer</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Guillermo Lli</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ñ</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">as Rocha- Adviser Sub-unit Climate Change-Colombia </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ms. Annie, as she reviews the materials.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Hernando Grueso- </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Asia Pacific Adviser/Asia, Africa and Oceanic Directorate-Colombia</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roundtable Discussion </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">UNDP Country Director Renaud Meyer</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Giovanni, Lexcode Spanish interpreter</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The alluring Lexcode Interpretation Manager</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ms. Annie as she delivers her interpretation skills</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Carolina Gonzalez- </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Adviser for International Cooperation</span></span></td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div>Lexcode Languages and Communicationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13895622148189761733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5858479554879877900.post-35666941850762528112012-06-06T19:33:00.001-07:002012-06-06T19:33:39.820-07:00The Gist of Translation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig4DTMYQ5xAo067fEDEaGoFBm2YQyiVyhviTJN9-FbE6ZGk2MNWytwTbNlIywuKPWxVYUAbdAY6ZC8WWstj6HPVPAmLRUkW3PKiNZH7coAM6ditXB8ap9ziWPeISyffRQRQ7yE1n1WBSM/s1600/machine-vs-human-translation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig4DTMYQ5xAo067fEDEaGoFBm2YQyiVyhviTJN9-FbE6ZGk2MNWytwTbNlIywuKPWxVYUAbdAY6ZC8WWstj6HPVPAmLRUkW3PKiNZH7coAM6ditXB8ap9ziWPeISyffRQRQ7yE1n1WBSM/s320/machine-vs-human-translation.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="lingo_region">Imagine if cybershoppers in Paris, Beijing and Rio could go to the Gap?s website and find a description of the clothes — and an order form — in their native language. That day isn?t far off. Machine-language translation — a process that uses computer software to translate text from one language into another — is maturing precisely at the time when the need for it, particularly on international websites, is escalating. Analysts figure that by 2005 about three-quarters of the 1 billion people communicating and doing business online will live outside the U.S., and most of them won?t speak English. <br />
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Late last month Autodesk, a U.S. software company, began offering machine-generated translation to its European customers at 50% less than it costs to have humans do the job. In its first application of the software, Autodesk is providing French and Spanish versions of 5,000 online customer-support documents — the ones that tell you what to do when you run into technical problems. German and Italian will be added in about a month, with Asian languages to follow, says Mirko Plitt, a process analyst at Autodesk?s global center for localizing content in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. <br />
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The company supplying Autodesk?s translation software is Systran, which is based in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, France (<a href="http://www.systransoft.com/" target="_blank">www.systransoft.com</a>). It makes software that can translate more than 20 language pairs and provides the technology behind the free online translation services offered by AltaVista?s BabelFish, Google, Lycos and AOL, as well as a wireless portal run by Oracle. <br />
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The quality of these free translation services tends to be uneven because the subject matter is so diverse and the process relatively imprecise. (It is called gisting, because it yields translations that provide the gist of a document.) What Systran offers Autodesk — and other multinational companies — is improved translation software customized for the context of the website. "Multinational organizations trying to provide quality service to all their customers, business partners and employees will want to have this capability," says Steve. <br />
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McClure, a research vice president at the technology consultancy IDC in Framingham, Massachusetts. Given Systran?s head start, IDC says it holds the No.1 position worldwide for machine-language translation, ahead of IBM and Belgium?s Mendez. <br />
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Machine translation has long been an elusive goal of computer experts. Like its human counterpart, the software has to take into account the grammatical structure of each language; it can?t just give a substitution for every word unless it understands all of the words in a given sentence and how one influences the other. <br />
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Early attempts at decoding natural languages through mathematical techniques using closet-sized computers produced poor results. Then Peter Toma, a linguistics researcher who began his work in 1957 at the California Institute of Technology, introduced linguistic rules into the process. He founded Systran in 1968. Among its first clients was the U.S. Air Force, which asked the company to develop a Russian-into-English machine-translation system. Later work for NASA caught the attention of the European Commission, which asked Systran to develop systems to translate European languages. In 1986 the company was purchased by Gachot, a French maker of industrial valves and fittings. Systran, which trades on the Nouveau Marché, last year had profits of $876,000 on revenues of $8.5 million. <br />
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For decades Systran?s machine-translation technology was available only to U.S. and European government agencies and other public institutions via mainframe computers. Today its software runs on many different hardware platforms — including the type of Linux and Unix servers used by multinational corporations. At Autodesk the Systran software will not replace the people manning the multilingual help desk in Neuchâtel, says Plitt, but it?s likely to make their jobs easier. <br />
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Systran has other multinational clients, including Ford and Price Waterhouse Coopers, that use the technology internally. But to create a mass market, Systran will need a lot more customers like Autodesk, which Systran CEO Dimitris Sabatakakis calls a "showcase client," putting the software on their external websites. If analysts are right, translating customer-support information is a significant first step, after which e-commerce applications should follow. Beyond that, the World Wide Web will be not just multinational but multilingual as well. </span><br />
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<span class="new_description_big" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Localization is a very strange word to quite a few of people today. However, localization is influencing our global village and economy all the time and this element has already been the key to our international business success. Have you ever thought why Google couldn’t defeat Baidu in China? The language constraint. Could pure translation work make our products or services accept by our intended market? The answer is "far from enough".<br />
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Localizing what we want to do business plays an important role in our business expansion and prosperity. What is localization? According to different definitions given by different websites/dictionaries like Wikipedia and Wisegeek, localization refers to the process of adapting a product or a service to the target country’s market. The localization process includes translation, but it is far more than a mere "translation". It also takes geographic factors, product names, local color sensitivities, currency and many more of the destination market into account. <br />
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For example, if you want to make your website be accepted by your intended market, other basics you need to do besides website translation include: * Website structure localization * Website content localization like multimedia localization, webcasting, etc. * Website style localization * Website SEO * More… Is mere translation company capable of offering all of those<a class="articleLinks" href="http://article-niche.com/search/search.php?query=%20website%20loca&search=2"> website loca</a>lization services? Definitely not. Only localization companies with rich experience, powerful supporting team, native linguists world-wide and special know-how could achieve, for example, Golden View. If the localization has been successfully implemented, it will make your product or service be treated as the product or service produced in their country by people in your destination country. So the sale of business would rise. <br />
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What is the difference between language localization and translation? "High-tech translation" is what many people always think about "localization". These people neglect the complexity, importance and other aspects of this special language service. In addition to strict translation process, localization services help improve significant, non-textual components of products or services like physical structure of a product and proper forms of time and date. So the localized products or services not only have the look of the local products or services in the destination country, but also delivers a local feel and suits local culture.</span><br />
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The faces look a little nervous and the words are spoken a bit timidly — all rather normal for a group of French students learning to speak English. But the hesitant responses aren't coming in a classroom where foreign-language instruction is another obligatory grind in a long day of courses. Instead, these 18-to-25-year-olds are paying up to $6,000 annually to master a language they all took for six years in high school before earning their baccalaureate degrees and entering the job market.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmqGVoo3U5TDO3DVVy_OV0ctI501LdT3EeojEBIO9g2h7qLAl7EIMAGrJwvVBl-INCYBfZG30jJUGYyAXjWHMYRsN3fIxqLAxI31Z7cWR75DG39-zYLAupcYME0e75e5cokj6ay2rJj84/s1600/Beneath-the-Eiffel-Tower-Paris-France.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmqGVoo3U5TDO3DVVy_OV0ctI501LdT3EeojEBIO9g2h7qLAl7EIMAGrJwvVBl-INCYBfZG30jJUGYyAXjWHMYRsN3fIxqLAxI31Z7cWR75DG39-zYLAupcYME0e75e5cokj6ay2rJj84/s320/Beneath-the-Eiffel-Tower-Paris-France.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"A lot of things in France have changed under globalization in order to keep us competitive, but teaching people English here has remained old-fashioned and inefficient," says Julien Petitpas, one of the 10 young adults who gather for 12 hours a week to improve their English at the Berlitz language school near the Paris Opera. "In school it's all structure, grammar and getting it right on paper and in your head before you ever speak — and even then, you don't do much of that. It just doesn't work." <span class="see"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1882320,00.html" target="_blank">(See pictures of Paris expanding.)</a></span><br />
He's not the only person who thinks so. Earlier this month, French President Nicolas Sarkozy unveiled an "emergency plan" for teaching foreign languages in the nation's schools with the lofty objective that "all our high school students must become bilingual, and some should be trilingual." Why the panic? Because as Sarkozy noted, a nation that spends 5.8% of its annual GDP on education — the fifth-highest percentage in the world — simply must do better than its current rank of 69th among 109 countries on the standardized Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). To that end, Sarkozy has proposed exposing students to more native-speaking English instructors, increasing contacts between French and foreign high schools and shifting the focus in schools from written foreign-language instruction to the more practical oral.<br />
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"A modern foreign language is meant to be spoken," Sarkozy said in his latest assault on the kinds of tradition-bound practices that he believes are holding the country back economically. "Pointing something that obvious out isn't futile in a country where Latin is an oral exam on the baccalaureate, while the leading modern language is evaluated in written form." <span class="see"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1822818,00.html" target="_blank">(See pictures of Sarkozy celebrating Bastille Day.)</a></span><br />
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Compelling teachers in France's notoriously rigid education system to change their ways and encourage students to speak more in foreign-language classes will be one challenge to overcome. Another is confronting the contradiction that comes with promoting foreign-language study among students and continuing France's long-standing policies aimed at protecting and promoting the use of the French language at home. The Academie Française began its mission of purging the French language of impurities — often words taken from other languages — way back in 1635. The key objective of the country's 25-year-old <i>exception culturelle</i> is ensuring that French-language music, film and other cultural products are not dominated by English-language imports. And a law passed in 1994 requires that French translations accompany any foreign phrases in state documents, business contracts and even advertising. <span class="see"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1867216,00.html" target="_blank">(Read "<i>The Class</i>: A Year in the Blackboard Jungle.")</a></span><br />
These efforts to trumpet the virtues of the French language may inadvertently decrease the allure of foreign tongues to many in France — especially among students who are made to feel they mustn't attempt to utter a word of what's often called <i>la langue de Shakespeare</i> until they've mastered it on paper. "I think a lot of French people are hesitant to speak another language at what could be considered the expense of French," says Karin Hull, who has taught English at Berlitz for four years. "The legacy of cultural protectionism is one factor, and the way foreign languages are taught in school is another. Students pass language exams only to discover they can't really speak [the language]." <span class="see"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1930971,00.html" target="_blank">(Read "Plagiarism Software Finds a New Shakespeare Play.")</a></span><br />
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Shifting the focus of foreign-language study from written to oral instruction is only one way of making classes more practical. Berlitz also offers First Jobs, an increasingly popular course in which students are taught business and financial English vocabulary and are given help improving their résumés and job-interviewing skills — in English. "These are students who've wanted to improve their English as part of many things they'll need in their careers," says Alain Nothern, the polyglot director of Berlitz's Opera center. "The focus is English, but it's a wider tool kit for the business world."<br />
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Becoming an Anglophone isn't cheap — but that's not stopping students from signing up. Laetitia Marcellesi says she had to get a job to pay for the course, while her classmate, Justine Boussin, took out a loan to finance a study-abroad trip to London. Only time will tell if future French students will start getting this type of practical training for free at school or whether they'll have to keep paying for it once they graduate.<br />
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For decades, traditional language instruction held up native-like pronunciation as the ideal, enforced by doses of <a href="http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7802792">“fear, embarrassment and conformity,”</a> in the words of Murray J. Munro, a professor of linguistics at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Munro and a co-author, University of Alberta linguist Tracy Derwing, argue that this ideal is <a href="http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6322680">“clearly unrealistic,”</a> leading to disappointment and frustration on the part of most adult language learners. Indeed, a growing body of evidence points to a “critical period” in childhood for acquiring correctly accented fluency in a given language; even as research on neuroplasticity has pushed the limits of what adults can learn, this boundary has remained stubbornly in place. In light of these findings, a newer generation of adult foreign-language teachers has given up pronunciation instruction altogether, assuming it is a futile effort.<br />
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Both of these assumptions are wrongheaded, contend Munro and Derwing. Pronunciation <em>can</em> be learned—but it should be learned with the goal of communicating easily with others, not with achieving a textbook-perfect accent. Adult students of language should be guided by the <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/3588485/abstract">“intelligibility principle,”</a> not the old “nativeness principle.” As Derwing and Munro note, “even heavily accented speech can be highly comprehensible.” (In a 2009 article published in the journal <em>Language Teaching</em>, the two warn against the “charlatanism and quackery” of the “accent reduction industry.” Such books, tapes and classes claim to be able “to eliminate a foreign accent within specific periods of time; 28 days is a popular number,” the authors observe. “There is no empirical evidence that this ever actually happens.”)<br />
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Learners guided by the intelligibility principle focus less attention on individual vowels and consonants, and more attention to the “macro” aspects of language, such as general speaking habits, volume, stress, and rhythm. <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/0023-8333.00047/abstract">A study</a> by Derwing and colleagues showed that this approach can work. The investigators divided subjects into three groups: the first received foreign language instruction with no particular focus on pronunciation; the second received instruction with a focus on pronouncing the individual segments of language; and the third received “global” pronunciation instruction on the general way the foreign tongue should sound. After 12 weeks of classes, the students were asked to tell a story in their new language, and their efforts were rated by native-speaking listeners. Only the global group, the listeners reported, showed significant improvement in comprehensibility and fluency.<br />
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The intelligibility principle may be behind the acknowledged effectiveness of immersion-learning programs: when we immerse ourselves in a foreign language, particularly as spoken by natives, we’re picking up more than specific vocabulary words: we’re getting the gist of how the language is spoken, and our own attempts reflect this expansive awareness. Few of us have the time or money to engage in complete immersion, but a good tip is to limit your conversational practice with other native English speakers. The speech of second language learners, research shows, tends to “converge” toward a version of the foreign tongue that is more like the speakers’ native language. Instead, seek out someone who grew up talking the way you want to talk, and practice, practice, practice. You won’t sound perfectly like a native, but the natives will understand you perfectly well.<br />
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Cercle Francophone is dedicated to preserving the French-speaking traditions of south Louisiana. About 25 regular attendants, ranging from students at Nicholls State University to older members of the Thibodaux and Houma communities meet from meets 5:30 to 7 p.m. every Tuesday, except the second Tuesday of the month at the Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center in Thibodaux.<br />
“The event was started by about six months ago by Mo Belachie, of France, who is teaching French at W.S. Lafargue Elementary,” Fuller said. “They were originally meeting once a month, and they just kept having more and more people. Mo leads the group, but the members also rotate amongst themselves in case Mo isn’t here.”<br />
One session included members screening the black and white movie “La Fièvre Jaune” (Yellow Fever). The film recalls an 1897 fever epidemic in which soldiers were guarding a quarantined Cajun village. A central family finds itself in trouble with the law after the father evades a solider blockade through his knowledge of the back bayous. The 1978 film, which is in French and subtitled in English, was written and directed by Cut Off native Glen Pitre. During the movie, some members of this crowd discussed the movie in French.<br />
“Down the bayou, lots of people used to speak just French,” Fuller said. “Some also spoke French and very little broken English.”<br />
After viewing “La Fièvre Jaune,” the group moved into a sitting area for coffee and to discuss their experiences exclusively in French.<br />
“They don’t always watch movies,” Fuller said. “Sometimes group members give demonstrations or talk about a hobby of theirs. One member gave a presentation on model cars that he carves, and another spoke about the snakes and birds he keeps for pets.”<br />
This activity allows members, who also play music and sing at some of the meetings, to become familiar with words or phrases they may not know or use in normal French conversation.<br />
“They have a local cookbook writer who frequents the event to network and improve her French,” Fuller said. “Lots of French tourists also stop in at the meetings. They are usually visiting the area to study the genealogy.”<br />
Victoria O’Rourke of Des Allemands, a sophomore at Nicholls, hopes to add the language to her family’s genealogy. “No one else in my family speaks French,” she said. “I am enjoying the exposure to the language.”<br />
Group member Ray Malbrough of Houma carries on the family tradition and also educates future generations of French speaking locals.<br />
“The language is part of the history, culture and life here,” Malbrough, who is fluent in speaking and writing French, said. “We should speak the language of our ancestors. My grandparents knew English, but refused to speak it. I’ve been bringing my two nephews, ages 8 and 9, to some of the meetings to introduce them to the language.”<br />
Fuller, a native of Vacherie has a place in his heart for history and language. “My mother spoke English, German and French and was a grade school teacher,” he said. “She helped my sister learn French in high school.”<br />
Those in the group are carrying on a living language heritage of the area, and Fuller would like to see their efforts expand beyond Thibodaux.<br />
“I hope the group will be able to reinvigorate the language locally and beyond,” Fuller said. “People should be proud to be bilingual. Embrace the way you speak, your heritage. So what if you speak differently? I like the different dialects. It’s a benefit to be bilingual or multilingual. It’s a great thing to be able to speak a language that was the primary language in the region 50 to 100 years ago.”<br />
Fuller expects the group to continue on its own, even if Belachie does not stay in the area.<br />
“The whole idea is to preserve and learn French and to reestablish the language, if possible,” Fuller said. “It’s like a puzzle, listening to them speak in French, and I like putting it together.”<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you guessed English, you’re wrong. English only takes the second-prize if you count the number of people who learned it as a second language.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Today, there are anywhere from 322 to 400 million native Spanish speakers, making it the second-most common native language worldwide. The language we know today as Spanish actually hails from one province of Spain, the province of Castile. How did the language of a small Spanish province grow to be spoken by so many different people?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Spanish began in the time of the Roman Empire, as a dialect of Latin. After the Roman Empire fell, the languages that were spoken within its provinces began to drift off from one another, forming the various Romance languages.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> The Castilian dialect was simply one dialect among many for quite some time. However, in the 8th century, Spain was almost completely subdued by the Moorish empire to the south. Castile played a major role in the 800-year-long struggle to get Spanish land back from the Moors, known as the Reconquista. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> When the Reconquista was over, the Castilian dialect had spread all over Spain, replacing many (but not all) of the other Spanish dialects.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Castilian Spanish was also heavily promoted in the court of Alfonso X, who encouraged its use in administration and court documents instead of the traditional Latin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Also, since many of the heroes of the Reconquista were Castilian, heroic poems about these figures were recited all across Spain in the Castilian dialect. The Spanish language was developed even further after the Reconquista was complete and all of Spain was ruled by Ferdinand and Isabella. The first Spanish dictionary was written during this time period and presented to Queen Isabella in 1492, the same year Columbus set sail.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><strong>Expansion of Spain</strong></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg6JwTvesro4PKTFFHqEozBaaIxBQQczT7_YtcDhlIcJCyKrGgWrvDrOzq5EFQZua2GLwWXpi50g6GPctc86jL4z5bWJV1OImdm5rMINYG93HYuOI0Tj-Yb2IWGJmEIvolzIiiCMD48_g/s1600/The-States-of-the-Spanish-Language.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg6JwTvesro4PKTFFHqEozBaaIxBQQczT7_YtcDhlIcJCyKrGgWrvDrOzq5EFQZua2GLwWXpi50g6GPctc86jL4z5bWJV1OImdm5rMINYG93HYuOI0Tj-Yb2IWGJmEIvolzIiiCMD48_g/s400/The-States-of-the-Spanish-Language.jpg" width="310" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> When Columbus landed in the New World, Spain was able to expand and build an empire outside of Europe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Spanish explorers wrested large amounts of territory from Native Americans and colonised Central, South and parts of North America. Wherever they went, naturally, they brought their language with them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Although many natives never learned Spanish, the descendants of the original Spanish settlers continued to speak it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><strong>Spanish outside of Spain</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Today, Spanish is the official language of many former Spanish colonies, including Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Additionally, Spanish is an official language of the American state of New Mexico and the American territory of Puerto Rico. Colonial Spain also managed to get a tiny foothold in Africa, so Spanish is spoken there in Equatorial Guinea and the Canary Islands.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Of course, most of these people do not speak Spanish exactly as it’s spoken in Spain. With such a widespread language distribution, regional language variations are inevitable, just like the differences between UK English and US English. These differences aren’t enough to make Spanish from one region unintelligible to a Spanish speaker from another country, but before you travel to a Spanish-speaking country it is helpful to know how Spanish is spoken there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> For example, in Spain itself, the pronoun vosotros and its associated verb case is often used to indicate that you are talking to a group of friends. Basically, it’s the plural, informal version of “you.” In most Latin American countries, vosotros isn’t used. The formal, plural word for “you”, ustedes, is used instead, even if you are addressing a group of people with whom you are familiar. There are also regional differences in the way words are pronounced, slang, vocabulary, and speech rhythm.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> When you are translating material to Spanish, it’s important to make sure that the translation is done by someone who is familiar with the way Spanish is spoken in the country you are translating for. That way, you can be sure to avoid any language mishaps, such as those suffered by the American beer company Coors Brewing Co. When Coors went to translate its slogan “Turn it loose” into Spanish, it came out as “Suffer from diarrhea.” Obviously, this did not attract Spanish-speakers to the product.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Again, this underscores the need to have translations done by people with enough local knowledge to keep misunderstandings from happening in the first place!</span><br />
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