Blog: articles on translation and language services

From the Tower of Babel to today’s translation industry: a few decisive steps in the history of translation.

Advances in telecommunications have reduced distances, yet barriers to understanding remain strong. Why language technology cannot replace the human translator.

From the first machine translation into Romanian in 1962 to Neacșu’s Letter of 1521: milestones in the history of translation in Romania.

In texts where commas are missing from the right places, ambiguity rules. A look at the “comma crisis” and the troublesome comma.

A journey into the fascinating world of similarities of meaning between Romanian words and their counterparts in other languages.

A journey back in time to the age of the enigmatic runes – the 24-letter futhark used by the Nordic peoples for communication and magic.

A leap in time to the first attested writings in the world: the Uruk tablets and the Tărtăria tablets.

The area of multilingualism, and with it multiculturalism, extends across the whole of society. Why localization matters.

More and more software has a localized version. No valuable product can succeed without localization – here is why it matters for your business.

In the world of software and websites, localization is the GPS that guides you through the World Wide Web. The basic stages of a localization project.

How little, or how much, do we know about the world around us and about the languages of the globe? Curious facts about languages.

The limits of communication are set by how many languages we know. The origin of languages and the ten most widely spoken native languages in the world.