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Translators make bad language students
Over the Easter break I decided to take the plunge and enroll on an intensive French language course for beginners. French has never been a language that I’ve been particularly attracted to. Instead...
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How to feel #?$*! great
Quite by coincidence and just days after reading an interesting book on swearing and insults a number of articles appeared in Irish newspapers explaining how swearing can actually help us cope better...
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Keep smiling…
I’ll be honest, I’m really busy at the moment marking a PhD and preparing lectures for the new semester so I’m taking the easy way out and going for some cheap laughs. But seriously, it is easy...
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Localisation – When Language, Culture and Technology Join Forces
First published as: Byrne, Jody (2009) “Localisation – When Language, Culture and Technology Join Forces”. Language at Work, Issue #5 When you switch on your computer and type up a letter, what...
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Weird translation request of the week
I got an enquiry from a client I work for on a regular basis asking whether I would be available to do a translation review for them. I’m pretty busy at the moment and can’t really take on any more...
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The devil is a great language teacher
Technically I was learning Spanish here with my band Mortuum I was toying with calling this post “The devil made me do it” or “Heavy metal made me what I am” but I was a little concerned about the...
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A truly multilingual web?
A unanimous decision last night by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers which regulates the naming system for websites, to permit domain names to be written in scripts other...
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Counteracting government language policy
Inexplicable and ill-advised changes in the English education system and National Curriculum as a result of the Education Act (2002) have meant that fewer and fewer school students are learning...
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How not to write a call for papers
I regularly receive emails with calls for papers for various conferences, journals and whatnot. Usually I’ll have a quick glance at the subject line and then delete the email if it’s not of interest....
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A handshake or poke in the eye?
A while back I read an article by the BBC discussing the declining use of “Dear…” in emails. I’ll admit that at the time I felt my blood pressure rise ever so slightly and I felt the stirrings of a...
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