Pun Intended
Filed under: Accurate Translation, Cultural Training, Learning a New Language, Transl8 Language Solutions, Translation
The ability to make and understand puns is considered to be the highest level of language development.
Here are the 10 first place winners in the International Pun Contest:
Volcano Terminology
For some reason there is a great deal of interest in volcanoes at the moment. Unfortunately, there are not many bilingual or multilingual glossaries available relating to this subject.
What is the future of English?
English is distinguished from other languages by having very significant numbers of non-native speakers.
It’s clear that globalization is making English especially important in universities and in the areas such as computing, diplomacy, medicine, shipping, and entertainment. No language is currently being learned by more people — there may soon be 2 billion actively doing so — and the desire to learn it reflects a desire to be plugged into a kind of “world brain.”
