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Archive for August, 2017

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Friday, August 25th, 2017

Australia’s “Number 4” – Part 2

Following on from our blog about Number Four, we are dispelling myths that the number is unlucky in China! Today, we would like to tell some more stories about Number 4 in Australia: The Top four Universities in Australia According to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the top four universities in Australia are:

Monday, August 21st, 2017

Australia’s “Number 4” – Part 1

Four unlucky? In Chinese (Korean and Japanese), some people consider “four” to be an unlucky number, as the pronunciation of the number four is similar to “death”, some places even remove any floor numbers with four in...

Monday, August 21st, 2017

Translators on EPO – Speed is all that matters – if you are Usain Bolt anyway!

There’s a lot of jargon around translation out there. Barely a week goes by without seeing someone blogging on about some fancy new idea, or tossing in some made up translation accreditation. Crowd sourcing was one. In...

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