A recent post on the Digital Spy blog discusses how the popular game Minecraft ended up containing a racial slur for users who switched the language preference to Afrikaans (spoken in South Africa). (more…)

Last week Chinese President Hu Jintao Took part in a joint press conference with US President Barack Obama. There was a tense moment when a question about  Human Rights seemed to have been ignored by the Chinese President.  It ends up that a glitch in the interpretation workflow may have caused the oversight. (more…)

A lot of attention is being spent on errors created by machine translation due to a misinterpretation of meaning. Oddly enough this same type of error can be caused by poorly trained linguists. (more…)