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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