Swiss German: How does it differ from German?
posted Fri, 2011-08-26 15:18 by
When is German not German? When it’s Swiss German, of course.
Earlier this week we blogged about how the powerful Swiss Franc is forcing Swiss residents to shop in nearby (and cheaper) Germany.
tags: differences in Swiss German, language differences, marketing to Swiss-German speakers, Swiss-German, translators
Welsh Assembly slammed for using Google Translate
posted Thu, 2011-08-04 12:45 by
The Welsh Assembly got itself into hot water this week after admitting it used Google Translate to translate assembly proceedings.
The move has sparked outrage from cross Welsh translators, branding it ‘ridiculous’.
A recent report stated a 5000-word passage (known as a ‘cofnod’) was copied into Google Translate and was ‘quality assured’ by a member of staff as part of a pilot project.
tags: machine translation, Translation Industry, translators, Welsh to English translation, Welsh translation
