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The following articles are on Language Light
Famous mistranslations - bad English
by Lingo24
Most of us do not associate languages with mirth or merriment. There are, however, times when mistranslations and bad English can have just such an effect.
Translation Services Promote Fun
by Lingo24
When you think of translation services, you don’t automatically associate them with fun. However…
The language of business how fluent are you?
by Lingo24
In an increasingly global marketplace, it's high time that UK exporters realised the importance of translating or localising their sales websites into foreign languages. We have found a quick test to ascertain readers' current level of expertise in European "commercial-speak".
Dictionaries and their Eccentricities
by Verónica Albin
Verónica Albin delves into the development of dictionaries through the centuries, discovers some very amusing definitions along the way.
Waiter! There's an insect of the order Diptera in my soup!
by Lingo24
We explain what happens when translation goes wrong ...
Bad translations
by Emma Burrows
Emma Burrows covers bad translations in an article from the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Mind your language or pay the price in Rubels!
by Lingo24
We explain why Friday nights in Russia just became that little bit more expensive