Harvard Gazette
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Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to our November issue of "The Language News"! This month's topics include a look at a new multilingual tool for Wikipedia users, President Obama's recent visit to Asia , an overview of the Turkish language, a humorous translation game, and other related items.
For those of you who celebrate Diwali, we would like to wish you a happy and prosperous new year.
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Wikipedia has become one of the world's largest and perhaps most powerful
tools to access information. However, until recently it had one major drawback: Most of the content is available only in English. To date, there are approximately 3.4 million
articles in English, while only one-third as many articles are available in the second most prevalent language, German.
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U.S. President Obama's recent visit to Asia this month
included stops in India, Indonesia, South
Korea, and Japan. His goal was to strengthen
ties between Asia and the United
States. Extra efforts were made on both
sides to help ensure clear communication during cultural events and meetings
between President Obama and Asian leaders.
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|  "Yurtta sulh, Cihanda sulh."
"Peace at home, peace in the world"
-Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Turkish is a spoken by over 70 million people in Turkey where it is the
official language, as well as by Turkish immigrant populations
worldwide. At least 35 other countries have a significant number of
speakers ...
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 Do you remember a game that you played as a kid
called telephone? One person whispered a word or a phrase into the next
person's ear, and this was repeated over and over to a chain of people until the last person
said the phrase or word out loud. By the time it reached the last person, most
often it had been completely changed or misunderstood. Well now some
people use online language translators like the Google Translator to come up
with funny translation games similar to this children's game.
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More Language Humor
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A sign for tourists in Mexico
(Photo by Drpoulette)
It never ceases to amaze me how polite locals can be to visitors.
They even thank you for discovering your head before entering the premises.
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