There’s a joke quoted in the TA Professional Translation Services Guide about a machine translation of the biblical phrase “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”  Supposedly, someone used a free online translator to translate this phrase from English to Russian, then back to English again, and [...]

Here’s my video take on life on FIT in May 2009. I used word clouds from blog posts in the May archive (from all the different writers on FIT this month), from the About page, screenshots of videos and images posted on FIT, and images, and then edited them in with my trusty [...]

So a couple of news stories caught my attention today. The first piece appeared in the New York Times, entitled Public Provides Giggles; Bloggers Get the Book Deal. This piece begins by discussing blogs that have gone on to be published in traditional book format, like Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves, [...]

LinguistList announced today that there’s a new book coming out on translation that looks REALLY interesting:

Agents of Translation contains thirteen case studies by internationally recognized scholars in which translation has been used as a way of influencing the target culture and furthering literary, political and personal interests.

Maybe a partial answer to [...]

It’s been two years to the day since the first post appeared on FIT (author=2, Dave) entitled “Looking for international television or radio on the web?” As I look over the first post, I think of what Dave was thinking, as he typed up that first sentence:

“You might try http://wwitv.com for [...]