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Lingo24 Solutions:We really can help you do more effective business internationally - and if we can't, you'll know this within 30 seconds of speaking to us on the 'phone. Lingo24 Company BlogArchive for June, 200824th language or dud?Thursday, June 5th, 2008I guess that everybody is proud of their own language, after all, languages contain millennia of a people’s history, culture and identity; it may come as no surprise then that the Welsh Nationalist Party Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Labour Party, are currently at loggerheads over the future status of the Welsh language. The right to perform a Civic DutyWednesday, June 4th, 2008As one experiences more and more of the world, it becomes apparent that situations are often never very clear cut: in the words of a famous Monkees song there are ‘only shades of grey’. Well so it seems in The Republic of Ireland where Joan Clarke, a deaf mother is bringing a landmark legal case against The Galway County Registrar, The Courts Service of Ireland and the Attorney General for breach of her human rights under the Human Rights Act 2003; this alleged breach relates to her being discriminated against for being deaf. Translation Services – a matter for litigationMonday, June 2nd, 2008Languages and the provision of language translation services can mean different things to different groups of people; for the recipients of such services, they can mean the difference between isolation and participation; they can provide a social lifeline and they can mean the difference between interacting within society’s official framework…or not. For the providers of such services they can mean an opportunity to extend their reach to additional clients or service users; they might mean an extra and burdensome responsibility…but now it seems failure to do so in the USA can mean litigation and an expectation of punitive compensatory payments. |