Like many (most?) of us these days, I have a Facebook profile, and I’m also connected to several pages. Some are to do with the charity I work for, but I also have a page for Awendan. However, they are
Does “mot-dièse” signal desperation from the Académie?
The news has hit this weekend that the Académie française, the venerable institution tasked with preserving and enriching the french language, has coined a new official term to combat the social media titan “hashtag”. The hashtag and its concept has
£50 Google Adwords Giveaway!
I’ve been inspired by Judy & Dagmar Jenner‘s policy of running a blog competition to giveaway any Google Adwords vouchers they get sent. As it happened I won one of their competitions – so I’ve already used up my eligibility
Good article “Google Translate – does it really work?”
This article popped up (rather ironically) in one of my Google alerts today. A clear and concise article outlining how and why Google Translate (and other similar machines) can never be relied upon to give accurate, nuanced translations. “Google
Unsolicited emails & new translators….
Just yesterday I was catching up on a few other translation blogs out there, and read among others this post on Translation Times about scam emails to translators. Then what do I find in my inbox this morning –