by Elodie Milne | Tuesday, November 14th, 2017 | Countries of the world, Language, Translation
When a machine translation tool tries to render foreign idiomatic expressions, the results can be quite unexpected. Machine translation error is commonplace. For example, the French expression “sage comme une image”, used to talk about a quiet well-behaved child, can...
by Elodie Milne | Tuesday, July 18th, 2017 | Countries of the world, History and culture, Language, Languages in world's history, The Language Room, Translation
There are so many books in the world, in so many languages! Have you ever wondered how many? It is impossible to obtain an exact figure, and even if we could reach an accurate one, would we even be able to read everything on the list? To give you an idea, nearly...
by Elodie Milne | Wednesday, July 5th, 2017 | Countries of the world, Language, Translation
Monday 26 June 2017 marked twenty years since Harry Potter was first published. Initially The Philosopher’s Stone was seen as just another children’s book. It featured a bit of magic, a strange school in a Scottish castle and a few centaurs and unicorns. However, in...
