Lingo24 Company Blog

As ‘firsts’ go, they are almost always important landmarks of achievement and contribute greatly to human understanding and endeavour; take some classic examples from the past; The first printing press, the first instance of powered flight and the first English dictionary. This last achievement, of course, marked the beginnings of the standardisation of the English language and saw the beginning of the end of quaint and ‘olde’ spellings commonly found before the dictionary’s advent.

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As all of us can imagine, being deaf presents a vast range of problems, but the two highest ranking of these are safety considerations and social interaction issues. Unbelievably until now, many deaf people have had to rely heavily upon family members to translate as best as they can for them during such situations as interviews and appointments etc.

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With recent talk about credit crunches and recessions, you might be forgiven for thinking that all businesses were headed for a massive downturn. It seems, however, that for some translation services companies, business couldn’t be any better.

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A team of 10 to 12 translators are currently working 24/7, on a copy of a Mexican court judgement in order to expedite the return to Canada of a wrongly convicted Canadian citizen; Brenda Martin.

Brenda Martin was convicted on money laundering charges in Mexico. At the time she was being employed as a chef by a certain Alyn Waag who was, unbeknown to Brenda Martin, actually operating an internet fraud scheme. In due course, the long arm of the law caught up with Waag, who is currently serving 10 years, however, the shadow of suspicion also fell upon Brenda Martin.

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