The Wikimedia Foundation has made it their goal, job, motto, or whatever you want to call it, to spread the idea of Wikipedia throughout the world. As a result of their noble effort (oh I wish you could read the sarcasm in that statement), Wikipedia is now available in 288 languages (as of the date […]
World Famous Translations
Ages apart from today’s multimedia modes of broadcasting information, written word was all powerful. It was the more reliable mode of preserving, and passing on information centuries after centuries, spoken word being inherently perishable at that time. Knowledge was the form of information, the reliable sharing of which was restricted to its only means of […]
Translating Films -Dubbing Versus Subtitling
Motion Pictures are popular in almost every part of the world. In order to spread the message and the element of entertainment in them, widely, they need to be translated for the audience from different linguistic backgrounds. Keeping everything else fixed for retaining the elementary flavors of the movie, originally recorded speech can be superimposed […]
