When officials from new member states come to Brussels, they "all have fluent English as their second language but, out of courtesy, will attempt to speak French and some idiot will always try to correct them".David WedgwoodGlasgowSIR – As a German expat living in Brussels, I have to disagree with the contention that knowing English "breeds complacency" with regard to other languages.
Recently we got also the result of the linguistic/ cultural adaptation into the Turkish language (as courtesy of Oslem C. Gurkan, College of Nursing, University of Mamara, Haydarpapa / Ystanbul, Turkey, who coordinated the translation process).
New Yorkers will get to gorge on a big hunk of the greatest playwright in the English language, courtesy of one of the world's leading theater companies.
* Meanwhile, after being accused of using un-parliamentary language courtesy of calling the Labour leader a "mug" in the Commons yesterday, our Prime Minister was at least able to rein in his demons when up against another tricky customer.
Your automatic photo groupings, your speech to text and even translation of speech to other languages is courtesy of advances in AI.
The new buttons allow XIHA friends to translate content to over 55 different languages (courtesy of the Google Translate API), making it possible to read updates, polls and interests in one's native language regardless of the original language of the status update.
Here in the melting pot, where we arrive daily for paying work and new horizons, the comfort of language trumps -- and the lubricant of courtesies.
—International push: Importantly, City's new site comes with an Arabic version and more languages are on the way courtesy of digital creative agency Poke, which says it's made a "global platform" for the club.
(Courtesy of Peter Kamp Busk, University of Aalborg, Denmark).
