“ A good number of these clients speak Chinese and various other languages, so they would see the blunder, unaware it was the magazine’s own creative ‘improvement,’ and incorrectly assume Globalization Group and I had incompetently provided bad machine translations. Yikes!”   Irony: Magazine mistakenly adds Google mistranslation to article about translation | Deseret News.

  “[…]She said American Sign Language is a separate language from English. That means written English is essentially a second language for many deaf people, so notes may be insufficient to convey complicated information to them, said Lewis, who is deaf.” Deaf woman says in lawsuit that hospital made daughter interpret | The Des Moines […]

“Adjectives typically reflect the meaning of corresponding nouns,” he wrote, “but not always.” [Chief Justice Roberts, Jr.] gave examples.   Supreme Court Rules on AT&T Case – NYTimes.com.

Florida International University Latin American and Caribbean Center invites you to a screening followed by discussion on the Postville Raid. The event will take place on March 10, at the College of Law.  Click here for more details or here for a preview.

Dictionary.com chose to launch with the Spanish language version after seeing that 30 percent of all Google-powered translations are in Spanish. Dictionary.com to Launch Spanish Language Version of Site – Hispanically Speaking News. Contributed by Michael Powers

After shunning linguistic system for many years, the statistical translation mainstream is now again embracing grammar and other language-specific rules to capture some nuances and improve accuracy. Google, Yahoo! BabelFish use math principles to translate documents online.   Contributed by ATIF Friend Soledad Judge.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the overall need for interpreters in the United States will increase by 22 percent from 2008 through 2018. Read more: Court Interpreter Certifications | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/info_7942405_court-interpreter-certifications.html#ixzz1EgsCunXf Court Interpreter Certifications | eHow.com Contributed by ATIF Member Michael Powers.

Memory Games – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com.   Keeping our memories sharp while having fun. Not a bad idea!