Real Cost of Translation
Dusseldorf – A typographical error compounded by a translation error converted a music-awareness campaign in city schools into a ‘Gays’ Day of Action’ in the German city of Dusseldorf as it prepares to host this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Read more–>
in legal costs for a francophone man who challenged a $54 traffic ticket that was not written in both of Canada’s official languages … Read more–>
The ad hoc interpreters made 165 errors, and 77 percent of them were potentially dangerous… Read more–>
The French language has trumped the comma in a contract dispute between Rogers Communications Inc. and Bell Aliant Regional Communications LP. Read more–>
Revelations the military was close to using the name of Colombia’s most notorious guerrilla army as the Royal Canadian Air Force’s French acronym has set Latin American media buzzing. Read more–>
When Michel Thibodeau couldn’t order a 7-Up in French on an Air Canada flight in spring 2009, the federal-government worker didn’t just grumble about poor service. He and his wife Lynda sued the airline for more than half a million dollars. Read more–>
