WOW Language Services

12/12/2022

From ‘lepak’ to ‘deurmekaar’, terms borrowed from its 1.75 billion global speakers are enriching the language we share, says lexicographer Danica Salazar

13/05/2022

“Three reasons virtual reality can amp up employee training: https://t.co/fjkJpUlPmc”

17/04/2022

OpenAI’s GPT-3 and other neural nets can now write original prose with mind-boggling fluency — a development that could have profound implications for the future.

24/05/2021

https://www.trados.com/events/webinars/2021/may/using-neural-machine-translation-in-trados-studio-and-trados-live.html?utm_medium=organic-social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=trados-studio&utm_tactic=tp-2021-05-20-image&utm_content=lw-using-neural-machine-translation-in-trados-studio-and-trados-live

Join this webinar as we introduce our high quality neural machine translation (NMT) and how to add it to your translation project when working in Trados Studio and Trados Live.

06/04/2021

"We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content."

-- Emile Zola

21/03/2021

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-to-kill-the-english-language

Probably, most of you will have only the dimmest idea what a ‘fronted adverbial’ is. I used one in the last sentence. Can you spot it? Very good. Those among you who did are either a) professional linguists, b) seven-year-olds, or c) are, like me, recovering from several long months of home-scho...

21/02/2021

Happy International Mother Language Day!

International Mother Language Day 21 February The idea to celebrate International Mother Language Day was the initiative of Bangladesh. It was approved at the 1999 UNESCO General Conference and has been observed throughout the world since 2000. UNESCO believes in the importance of cultural and lingu...

15/02/2021

A snowy night camped out under the stars provides the stage for a close encounter with a mysterious creature

05/10/2020

https://www.fastcompany.com/90556360/how-covid-19-is-changing-the-english-language?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

One of the effects of the pandemic is that it’s brought previously obscure medical terms to the forefront of everyday speech—but it’s also created new words that we’ve never seen before.