June 25, 2009

Iran and translation, a search engine is sick in Chinese, and a drug ring’s Arabic dialects

Once a month, Carol Hills and I sift through a huge pile of language-related stories – stories that we otherwise wouldn’t cover.  We select five to talk about.  Here they are:
5. Google Translate gets to work on the virtual streets of Teheran: Google released a tool that translates Persian blogs into English and vice versa.  [...]