Dirty Little Secrets for Translators

20
Aug

Anagram server

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Did you know that parliament is an anagram of partial men? Or, Clint Eastwood an anagram of Old West Action?

Find lots of anagrams using the Internet Anagram Server.

19
Aug

Internet Scrabble Club

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The best place on the Internet to play Scrabble in a relaxed friendly environment. You can compete at your own level in English, French, Romanian, Italian, or Dutch while meeting new people from around the world.

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19
Aug

The color text brain teaser

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The point is to say the name of the color of each word, and not the color named by the word.

Yellow White Gray Green Gray Pink Green Pink Blue Gray Yellow Green Pink Blue Gray Red Pink Green Purple Yellow Pink Purple Yellow Blue Pink Red Green White Yellow Orange Red Orange Pink Red Orange Red Gray White Yellow Orange Purple Orange Pink Purple Blue White Orange Yellow Pink Red Blue Orange Purple Orange Yellow Gray Red Gray Orange Purple Yellow Green Yellow Purple Red Purple Pink Blue Yellow Red

19
Aug

Yolo and binge-watch added to online dictionary

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Yolo - an acronym for 'you only live once'

Yolo, an acronym for ‘you only live once’, is among the latest new words added to the Oxford online dictionary. The phrase, along with ‘adorbs’ – meaning cute or adorable, and ‘binge-watch’ – which means to avidly watch something – has been added to oxforddictionaries.com. The website is a catalogue of current definitions of English words as they are used today.

Read more: http://tinyurl.com/lug88ad

 

18
Aug

What is the size of the translation industry?

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How big is the translation services market? Which are the most demanded languages? What trends can we identify in the translation industry? The good news for translators who worry about the technology may one day replace human translations is that only parts of the translation job can be automated by now…

Read more: http://tinyurl.com/pqd867d

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