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Scarry Ukrainian
Well, by ’scarry’ I mean the children’s author and illustrator, Richard Scarry. I’m always interested in multi-lingual children’s books (as I have a toddler), and this adaptation of The Best Word Book Ever by Richard Scarry into Ukrainian (and French) is very interesting indeed.
Richard Scarry was a prolific children’s book author from the United States […]
Posted: February 14th, 2007 under Language, Books, Children.
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Is Homer Simpson Ukrainian?
I guess Homer is sort of Ukrainian by association. The creator of the Simpsons, Matt Groening, is of Ukrainian Mennonite heritage and in fact the namesake of Homer Simpson was Matt’s father, Homer Groening, who was Ukrainian Mennonite and spoke Plautdietsch (Mennonite Low German). This was the language spoken by Mennonites in what was then […]
Posted: December 3rd, 2006 under Language, Ethnic Groups, Entertainment.
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English-Russian Translation
I have added a page to the left called “Need Translation?” This page has the ImTranslator embedded in it and a link to translate website pages using the same service. I will work on adding the Trident translator that translates Ukrainian in the near future.
After the blog post last week reviewing on-line translators, I thought […]
Posted: November 16th, 2006 under Website Info, Language.
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Lost in On-line Translation
A few posts ago I reviewed several on-line translation sites that could translate text from English into Russian/Ukrainian or vice versa. This got me thinking about bad translations I have run across that have obviously been automated and posted with no sort of quality control. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t condemn this practice, […]
Posted: November 12th, 2006 under Language, Featured Website.
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On-line Translators for Russian and Ukrainian
On-line translators are becoming quite popular. While I lived in The Netherlands, I used Babelfish to help translate apartment listings, and it worked quite well. Granted, the translation wasn’t that good, and at most you could hope to understand 80% of what was written, but sometimes that is good enough.
There are now many on-line services […]
Posted: November 10th, 2006 under Language.
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It’s official, the US now uses ‘Kyiv’
I just saw this article dated October 19, 2006. It basically says that the US Government is now officially using ‘Kyiv’ instead of ‘Kiev’.
I have been debating changing the city’s name on my site, and to tell you the truth, my continued use of ‘Kiev’ is more related to practicality than anything. My site is […]
Posted: October 26th, 2006 under Website Info, Language.
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Surfing del.icio.us
Well, I am slowly starting to get the blog portion of this site going. Today I am surfing del.icio.us. It took several search pages before I came up with anything that was new to me or worth mentioning. I will be adding the URLs to the pages of this site.
The first site of some interest […]
Posted: October 1st, 2006 under Chernobyl, Tours, Language, Travel Resources.
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