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'Global Content Management Systems', Feb 08, 2010
Language Connect opens office in Melbourne, Feb 08, 2010
Russian Morphological Dictionary, Feb 08, 2010
Sajan renovates website, Feb 04, 2010
memoQ 4, Feb 04, 2010
New senior analysts and consultants at Gilbane Group, Feb 04, 2010
Call for volunteers - Haiti translation project, Feb 03, 2010
Manpower to acquire COMSYS IT, Feb 03, 2010
IMIA call for medical interpreters to aid Red Cross Haiti efforts, Feb 02, 2010
Promotion creates new CEO for Moravia, Feb 02, 2010
global dtp opens new department, Feb 02, 2010
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Post Editing: Testing out the new
Déjà Vu X
Off the Map: Geocultural testing, Part 1
World Savvy: Vertical travels
The Business Side: Innovation, rejection and overcoming pitfalls
Perspectives: Pricing translators internationally
Best practices in localization testing
Five types of localization testing
QA in translation: a process approach
Automating translation quality management
Cloud computing around the world
Final sign-off responsibility for translation projects
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Mental Acculturation
 The world flattens by means of technology, brand names, and apparently even psychology, according to the New York Times:

The Secret Language of ... Elephants
 The Elephant Listening Project is putting elephant sounds together with behavior to create an elephant language dictionary.

It's all relative
 What is wrong with the following sentence (other than the obvious heartbreak): “The thing is, is John just doesn’t love me anymore” ?

Making up language
 Vanity Fair, that bastion of linguistic knowledge, recently published an article on the creation of Na'vi, a constructed "alien" language used in the upcoming $400 million flick Avatar. There's a bit of phonetic explanation, though not much, and a sound clip. I'm quite curious how linguist Paul Frommer came up with his linguistic hodge-podge; director James Cameron apparently told him he wanted it to be both exotic and pleasant, and gave Frommer some Na'vi names he'd already come up with. Browsing further articles didn't turn up much detailing Frommer's inspiration, though Wikipedia explains the basic construction rather well.

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Translation Technology: Localisation e-Learning Course, Jan 11, 2010 - Mar 26, 2010
Editing For Translators, Feb 01, 2010 - Feb 26, 2010
Tools and Skills in the Information Age, Feb 08, 2010 - Feb 10, 2010
SDL Innovate 2010, Feb 09, 2010 - Feb 10, 2010
ICSCAT 2010, Feb 10, 2010 - Feb 12, 2010
FLaReNet Forum 2010, Feb 11, 2010 - Feb 12, 2010
USEUCOM Intelligence Summit, Feb 15, 2010 - Feb 17, 2010
Effective Localization Project Handoff Management, Feb 18, 2010
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