John Yunker UPS is like a lot of American multinationals – its international business is not the core source of revenues, but is an increasingly vital source of revenues. This week, UPS released its quarterly figures: we find that while its U.S. …
After reading about languages doing battle in Romania, it’s nice to see that languages can coexist in Lebanon: Lebanon, a former French mandate country, is a good illustration of how the French and English languages don’t have to be in …
It’s not official yet, but there’s an interesting law in the works in Romania: It still awaits legal fine-tuning and presidential approval, but as it stands now, it dictates that any foreign texts or words spoken at public events political …
I knew there were strict rules about what constituted actual “champagne” but wasn’t aware there were also rules for feta. This from the EU: The label “feta” can only be used for the distinctive cheese from certain Greek regions under …
The students become the teachers with this wonderful site.
According to this NY Times story, Vietnam is requiring that anyone who wants to launch a Web site get government permission first. Here’s the story. What jumped out at me was this mention of what happened to someone for posting …
If you’ve used the free machine translation site Babelfish, you know that it can be a little time consuming to translate one phrase into multiple languages. Carl Tashian has created a handy workaround that takes care of the heavy lifting. …
A great interview with Andy Chuang of Goodcharacters.com in Fresno, California. His company specializes in Chinese naming and linguistic evaluation. The interview was conducted by Steve Rivkin; here’s an excerpt: For example, Toshiba once had a commercial song in China …
According to a Sept. 28th article in the Economist, tensions between French and Dutch speakers in Belgium has been flaring up. Apparently, in the region around Brussels, French-speaking Walloons and Dutch-speaking Flemings live side by side. Dutch has long been …
In this NY Times article, thin is becoming beautiful in a country where just the opposite had been the case. Another reason to hate globalization, unless of course, you’re thin.