Localization Today

Fact is, in the 20th century, the most influential linguists decided that writing was so secondary to spoken language that the two were barely related. What is missing, dear readers, is the richness, range, and multi-angled consideration of writing that we see at work in even relatively small linguistics programs.

Asking the entire world to start calling Turkey “Türkiye” without a really convincing justification is sort of akin to asking a group of 40 undergraduate linguistics students to call a pen a “skopliotron.”

Arriving in America as a refugee with almost nothing to her name, Faiza Sultan quickly established herself as a hardworking and reliable linguist, which set the foundation for a career of impressive achievements. 

We joke about the preponderance of jargon in the financial services industry, yet each term, description, and acronym carries meaning that may be codified in law or in accepted local usage. In financial services, as in any other highly regulated sector, language really matters.

The Nimdzi Language Technology Atlas 2022 comprehensively assesses the language-technology landscape, as it does every year. For most people in the industry, this Atlas is essential.

It’s common to see game reviews like this: "The game needs to add support for Turkish. It’s not fun play-
ing without it." Does this mean that the game needs to be translated into Turkish or any other language that can be mentioned in the review? Not necessarily.

From naked mole rats to whales, all sorts of MT-like programs have been developed to help humans better understand their animal counterparts, but there’s still quite a long way to go before we’re able to accurately pinpoint the nuanced meanings underlying meows and purrs.

Despite the prevalence of automatic speech recognition software, it’s obvious that these tools could use some improvement, especially when speaking with a non-standard accent or in a slightly noisy environment. According to the team of researchers behind the paper, this can be particularly difficult to get right in Mandarin Chinese.

The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) has released the results of a survey on support to Ukraine, conducted with 40 respondents of its community.

A business professional with over 20 years of experience in marketing roles, Jolls announced his hiring by Lilt yesterday on LinkedIn, sharing a video where he detailed his reasons for joining the team.