Tag Archives: Cultural Fluents

(THE OTHER) FOOTBALL FEVER

June 10, 2010 – 8:39 am

by Becky Sun In January and February, my Facebook friends were abuzz over the Super Bowl. In March and April, it was all about the NCAA. Memorial Day brought talk of the Indy 500. But now that the quadrennial FIFA World Cup is just days away, I’m hearing … crickets. Perhaps it doesn’t help that […]

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FOUND IN TRANSLATION

October 6, 2009 – 4:11 pm

by Becky Sun As the editor for Global View, I sometimes use online translation tools to read foreign websites. After an incident in which the Spanish-to-English translation of “Coca-Cola” came up as “Cocaine-Tail,” I stopped using that particular program and switched to one where its millions of users could manually improve the results. But as […]

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THE CHEER HEARD ROUND THE WORLD

November 11, 2008 – 2:21 pm

by Becky Sun After Barack Obama decisively won the presidency last week, it wasn’t only his domestic supporters who felt palpable excitement. Not only did the world follow this election as if it were their own, but a majority would have voted for Obama if given the chance. A CTV/Global and Mail poll showed that […]

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