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Iran shuts down Google Mail
In a move ahead of Thursday’s 31st anniversary of the creation of Iran’s Islamic Republic, the national telecoms agency in Tehran said that it will ban Gmail and will instead facilitate its own national email service. The decision, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, comes just a month after Google threatened to leave China amid concerns that its systems had been attacked by Chinese hackers. The Iranian announcement is understood to be part of a … Read entire article »
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Bush, Arnie top English gobbledegook poll
Former US president George W. Bush topped a poll of the worst examples of mangled English released Wednesday, followed closely by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Donald Rumsfeld. French footballer-cum-philospher Eric Cantona and former US president Bill Clinton also produced prime examples of gobbledegook, according to the online poll of 4,000 people inspired by the Plain English Campaign. Notoriously language-challenged Bushromped to the top accolade for his: “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” Second came to bodybuilder-turned-actor-turned-California governor Schwarzenegger, who during an election campaign in 2003 minted the puzzling: “I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.” The rest of the top 10 in the poll, commissioned by an … Read entire article »
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Shanghai seeks end to ‘Chinglish’
The authorities in the Chinese city of Shanghai are starting a campaign to try to spot and correct badly phrased English on signs in public places. Chinglish, as the inaccurate use of the language is known, has long been a source of embarrassment for the authorities there. It is also a source of amusement to foreign visitors. But Shanghai wants to spruce up its image. It is expecting millions of visitors for the World Expo fair. Student volunteers will check the English on signs throughout the city. If they suspect the translation is less than accurate they will inform the government. Then the bureaucrats will request that whoever is responsible corrects the mistake. You can find Chinglish all over the city. Often it can be blamed on software used to translate Chinese automatically. ?? Sometimes you can see … Read entire article »
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