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• Free machine translation gives satisfactory translations

  
  Press About — Authority: 460
  Fear about the low quality of free machine translation stops many business people from using the Internet fully in their businesses. Because sufficient data is not available, business people cannot decide whether machine translation is suitable for their websites.To get data about the quality of free machine ...
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• What the priest really meant about five-finger discounts

  
  Exhibit A Baltimore — Authority: 116
  Interviewed on TV, the Rev. Tim Jones explains when shoplifting might be proper. [AP Photo/BBC News] If you’re eager to buy more and bigger presents than you can afford this holiday season, here’s a way [that we do NOT recommend], complete with excuse. According to a story by Gregory Katz of the Associated ...
  2 days ago

• Free machine translation gives satisfactory translations

  
  TechScribe software documentation — Authority: 111
  Fear about the low quality of free machine translation stops many business people from using the Internet fully in their businesses. Because sufficient data is not available, business people cannot decide whether machine translation is suitable for their websites. New evaluations show that if text is optimised, free ...
  3 days ago

• A glitch with the RSS feed for comments

  
  Locally Grown — Authority: 434
  Our RSS feed for comments seems to be suffering from a glitch. The comments are coming through via Google Reader but not for other aggregators, eg, Mozilla Thunderbird, or those built into web browsers. I’m working on it here as I get time. Apologies. (RSS for blog posts is working fine.) If you’re curious ...
  3 days ago

• 12/10/09: The Honorable Richard C. Collins

  
  SC Access To Justice Weblog — Authority: 114
  Earlier today, I mentioned that last Thursday, I attended and spoke at the Lexington County Bar ’s Annual Conference. Among the presenters were The Honorable James O. Spence , Master-in-Equity; Desa Ballard , Private Attorney; The Honorable Richard C. Collins , Magistrate;  The Honorable Daniel R. Eckstrom , ...
  1 week ago

• Fear and loathing over what’s up in school

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 135
  T HE Government is holding its ground on controversial national standards for primary schools, and on the first day of school next year the rules will be put into action. The NewsWire IN DEPTH team of Fetu Tamapeau, Jess Jones, Vaughan Elder, Reuben McDougall and Bonnie Tai looks at why teachers and ...
  1 week ago

• 12/10/09: Desa Ballard

  
  SC Access To Justice Weblog — Authority: 114
  Earlier I mentioned that I attended and spoke at the Lexington County Bar ’s Annual Conference last Thursday. Among the presenters were The Honorable James O. Spence , Master-in-Equity; Desa Ballard , Private Attorney; The Honorable Richard C. Collins , Magistrate;  The Honorable Daniel R. Eckstrom , Probate ...
  1 week ago

• Don’t drink and drive (really!)

  
  Exhibit A Baltimore — Authority: 116
  Police in Honolulu, Hawaii, stop drivers at sobriety checkpoints. Mugshots of DUI suspects are posted on the departments Web site before drivers go to court. [AP Photo/The Honolulu Advertiser, Norman Shapiro] You would hope that by now it wouldn’t be necessary to warn about the dangers and foolishness of driving ...
  1 week ago

• Not plain language: Judge lambasts government agency for gobbledegook

  
  Contented: content that makes people happy — Authority: 114
  A High Court judge has questioned whether the head of Maritime New Zealand broke the law by axing a Nelson company as a safe ship monitor. Bad language is mentioned: Mrs Reynolds attended the injunction and said Justice Miller criticised MNZ for language that was “pure consultant speak … and meaningless”. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stun guns galore

  
  Exhibit A Baltimore — Authority: 116
  This must be stun gun season. In her story posted today about pressures that police officers face on- and off duty, Melody Simmons mentions a New York lieutenant who killed himself to avoid possible prosecution after giving the order to shoot a mentally ill man with a stun gun. The man fell from a building and ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Question Is...

  
  PurinaCare Pet Insurance Blog — Authority: 124
  Why wouldnt you buy pet health insurance ? And, whats missing in the websites you check for this option? We try to provide down to earth information on our site and our blog, but were looking at things from inside, not outside. In marketing, thats where we recognize that reading the label from inside the bottle ...
  2 weeks ago

• Plain English and Golden Bulls

  
  Sentence first — Authority: 109
  Yesterday the Plain English Campaign announced the winners of its Golden Bull awards 2009, a dubious honour given to individuals and companies who have unleashed the best gobbledegook upon an unfortunate reading public. And by ‘best’ I mean ‘worst’.Unfortunately, the page is littered with erroneous ...
  2 weeks ago

• Plain English Campaign takes its Golden Bull upstream

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Culture Blog — Authority: 602
  The dear old Plain English Campaign has made its awards today, and my favourite among its “Golden Bull” winners is the following, from information on the Department of Health’s website about preventing disease:Primary secondary and tertiary prevention.Primary prevention includes health promotion and requires ...
  2 weeks ago

• Plain English awards: the worst offenders (Daily Telegraph)

  
  Adam Dicker | Domain Expert — Authority: 160
  The Plain English Campaign has announced the winners of its Golden Bull award for incomprehensible gobbledegook. Here are some of the worst examples. Read the original post: Plain English awards: the worst offenders (Daily Telegraph)
  2 weeks ago

• Plain English awards: the worst offenders

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 968
  The Plain English Campaign has announced the winners of its Golden Bull award for incomprehensible gobbledegook. Here are some of the worst examples.
  2 weeks ago

• Mandelson wins nonsense English award

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  London, Dec 8 (IANS) British Business Minister Peter Mandelson has won the Plain English Campaign (PEC) annual Gobbledegook award after making an unfathomable defence of his government.Defending the government over its handling of the MPs’ expenses scandal, Mandelson had said: “Perhaps we need not more people ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lord Mandelson wins nonsense English award for looking round more corners quote

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 968
  Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, has earned a black mark from language campaigners after talking himself into a corner in discussing MPs expenses.
  2 weeks ago

• Daily Telegraph wins Plain English award

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 968
  The Daily Telegraph is to be honoured today for the "clarity and honesty" of its journalism after it was voted Best National Newspaper in the Plain English Campaign awards.
  2 weeks ago

• Clear English gives good machine translation

  
  TechScribe software documentation — Authority: 111
  If source text is clear, machine translation can give satisfactory translations. This article was used to evaluate the quality of machine translation.
  2 weeks ago

• Guidelines for the evaluation of machine translation

  
  TechScribe software documentation — Authority: 111
  Evaluation of a translation can be difficult. This web page shows the guidelines that we gave to the translators who evaluated machine translations of international English text.
  2 weeks ago

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