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Cloudwords Announces Platinum Sponsorship of 2013 Internationalization and Localization Conference in Santa Clara, California
Santa Clara :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
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Organized by internationalization experts Lingoport, the conference day features a two-track theme with expert presentations, panel discussions, and product demo derbies by industry-leading companies. Geared toward bridging the gap between software
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Algeria: From Colonial to Hegemonic Cultural Policy
Algiers :: Algeria | 7 months ago
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At independence 50 years ago, Algeria inherited the oppressive cultural structures imposed by France. Today things are worse: the government allocates a meager budget to promote culture. A cultural policy is a public policy designed by the state to
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Christian networks all set for Second Coming
Avon :: OH :: USA | 7 months ago
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Michael Kesterton The Globe and Mail Published Sunday, Oct. 14 2012, 4:00 PM EDT Last updated Friday, Oct. 12 2012, 4:06 PM EDT Ready for the return If the Messiah descends from the Mount of Olives as foretold in the Bible, America's two biggest
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The Germans have a word for it – and it's a very long one
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
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A person who wears gloves to throw snowballs can be described in a single word in German. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images It was the first thing I found strangely fascinating about German: a word that went on and on until you ran out of
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'Swedish is the world's richest language': Swede
Uppsala :: Sweden | 1 year ago
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35 CET Double click on a word to get a translation Online: http://www.thelocal.se/39584/20120309/ A Swede, a Russian, and your resident Aussie walked into a bar. Sounds like the beginning of a joke, I know, but the Swede wasnt joking and the Russian
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Shitstorm best English gift to German
Athens :: Greece | over 1 year ago
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Germany needed Shitstorm, according to a group of language experts who elected the word as the top English contribution to the German language last year. The Anglicism of the Year jury defined Shitstorm as a public outcry, primarily on the internet,
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Language watchdog goes interactive to teach French to the French
London :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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The Academie Francaise operates on a different time scale from the one most of us use. The organisation, set up in 1635 to regulate the French language, has been labouring on a new edition of its dictionary for 76 years. A startling event occurred
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Blending the rules of slanguage spawns some sticky nonsense
Melbourne :: Australia | over 1 year ago
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I'll freely acknowledge a fauxhawk or netiquette but it was a reference to ''manity sizing'' that got me, well, blannoyed. It popped up in a recent story about vanity sizing for men and it reeked of a journo spicing up an intro...A Google search
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Lingoport and Copyous Internationalization and Localization Experts to Discuss Product Brand Culturalization Best Practices in Free Online Presentation
Boulder :: CO :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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Lingoport, a leading provider of software internationalization consulting services and i18n tools , announced today that it will co-host a live online webinar with Copyous on Thursday, August 25, 2011 , titled "Product Brand Culturalization."
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Mind your language: German linguists oppose influx of English words
Wiesbaden :: Germany | 2 years ago
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It is the mother tongue of Goethe, Schiller and Brecht, a language still spoken by more than 100 million people worldwide. But an increasing number of linguists now fear German is under mortal danger from a torrent of anglicisms flooding into the
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