For most interpreters, the harshest professional feedback they will ever see is an irate email.  Not so for Afghan interpreter Janis Shinwari who went out to his car one morning to discover the words, “Judgment Day is coming soon,” scrawled across the hood of his car. Shinwari got the message. “I’m sure somebody is watching […]

Google Translate 2.0 is a long-overdue re-do of Google Translate, now primed for the slick, new Apple interface on iPhone and iPad. The language list continues to grow with an additional seven languages including Bosnian, Cebuano, Hmong, Javanese, Khmer, Lao and Marathi, and the endless pull-down list of over 70 languages that goes with it. […]

Flipper, say it ain’t so! Oh, sorry, I guess you can’t… Dolphins aren’t as smart as you think,  and their language skills are way overrated, says self-described “dolphin scientist guy” Justin Gregg. Gregg, a researcher with the Dolphin Communication Project in Old Mystic, Connecticut, claims that scientists have been overrating dolphin intelligence and linguistic ability […]