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Month: July 2012

English-only multinationals are a bad idea

July 30, 2012 by John Yunker

You can decree that the employees of your company speak only English. You can train everyone. You can test everyone. And you can get everyone to speak English in meetings, just as you mandated. But be careful what you wish …

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Categories Business globalization, Companies, Culture, Languages

Twitter’s multilingual error page

August 14, 2012July 25, 2012 by John Yunker

I’m not sure if Twitter has officially retired the “Fail Whale” landing page that we all grew accustomed to over the years. But I recently came across a Twitter error page that did not include the whale, though did include …

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Categories Twitter, Web Globalization

A map of the multilingual Internet

August 14, 2012July 12, 2012 by John Yunker

With Mongolia gaining approval for its new internationalized domain name (IDN), there are now 30 countries and territories with non-Latin top-level domains. I’ve updated my map and, as you can see below, IDN coverage is significant:  

Categories Arabic, China, Country Codes, Global navigation, IDN (Intl. Domain Name), India, Russia, Unicode

Gabble On: Using machine translation to learn a language

July 5, 2012 by John Yunker

Ethan Shen, who has become quite an expert on the various machine translation (MT) engines, has launched a nifty web service designed to help you improve your language skills: Gabble On. Basically, the site leverages an MT engine (Google, Bing, …

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