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Trademarks of logos, designs and other visual aspects of corporate branding are accepted but what about the translation of branded expressions into other languages?

The English language consists of a large amount of eponyms. An eponym is a person or a thing after which a specific discovery, place or era is named.

Old English is an early form of the English language and dates from the mid-5th to late 11th century A.D. It was written and spoken by the Anglo-Saxons

Coca-Cola has been forced to cancel a Canadian advertising campaign that combined randomly generated English and French words and displayed them on the inside of bottle tops after an woman in Edmonton, Canada received one that said “You Retard.”

Standard English started as a regional dialect that developed in the southeast of England.

Swansea Council officials responsible for tremendous translation blunder on Welsh road sign.

The local government of Karnataka, a state in south west India bordering Goa and Kerala, is campaigning for the local language of Tulu to be recognised as an official language.

Are fan translations (translation of media, mostly computer games, films, books and music, from one language to another) ethical?

Google Real-time Spoken Language Translator in Development. Google has confirmed that it is working on a real-time spoken language translator.

We've translated Keep Calm and Carry On into loads of different languages! They look great and are very funny, so take a look and share away.

When speaking of grammatical genders, one might wonder what grammar has to do with sex. Not much, to be honest. The original meaning of ‘gender’ was ‘race’, ‘type’ or ‘kind’

The Oxford comma is an optional comma that clarifies the meaning of a sentence, and is also known as the serial or Harvard comma.

The rules of punctuation vary greatly between languages.

Have you ever wondered why there are three different concepts for one word in the English language, for instance weird, odd and strange? This is because native and foreign terms co-exist in English: weird derives from Old English, odd from Old Norse and strange from Old French.

It is impossible to provide an accurate word count for the English language. However, it is safe to say that The Oxford English Dictionary contains over 300,000 entries. According to a recently conducted study by The Economist...

Clients witnessed a 20% increase in conversion when landing pages and ads were translated into the local language and a staggering 70% when their client’s websites were fully localised.

Microsoft Adds Klingon to Bing Translator. Microsoft has added the fictional language of Klingon to their Bing Translator machine translation tool.

The Festival De Cannes will start in less than two weeks and we thought it would be interesting to conduct some research into the best constructed languages in films and TV.

Google Translate has announced that it has added five new to its translation tool, taking the total up to 70 languages.

A British holiday-maker on a trip to Poland was horrified to find that one of the dishes on his menu was rather unappetising.