'He began to eat Hermione's family': bot tries to write Harry Potter book – and fails in
After being fed all seven Potter tales, a predictive keyboard has produced a tale that veers from almost genuine to gloriously bonkers....
Bizzumbaw and heidbummers: why Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is better in Scots.
K Rowling’s wizard tale has been translated into 79 foreign languages, but this new version may just be the best of all. Harry Potter and...
Facebook translates 'good morning' into 'attack them', leading to arrest
Palestinian man questioned by Israeli police after embarrassing mistranslation of caption under photo of him leaning against bulldozer....
David Sadaris reads 6 To 8 Black Men
David Sedaris reads the story 6 To 8 Black Men in the Dutch television show College Tour. The story of Sinterklaas and Black Pete as told...
Lost in translation: A rose by any other name?
Britain’s most famous plays have been translated into Maori, sign language, even Klingon. But can Shakespeare’s bawdy jokes and tragic...
11 untranslatable words
In 1983, the writers Douglas Adams and John Lloyd compiled The Meaning of Liff, “a dictionary of things that there aren't any words for...
