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World Bank has a wonderful tradition: to organize vendor appreciation party for its freelance translators every year in the New Year eve. This year the event took place for the 6th time on the 20th of December. In the New Arbat World Bank office the house translators and freelancers, who have been actively cooperating with the Bank Translation Unit gathered together in order to exchange congratulations and news and even discuss some translation difficulties with colleagues and get expert advice. This year the celebration was not just that of the New Year….

On December, 6 TechInput participated in the 10th Annual Conference of Moscow Translation Club. It is worth pointing out that the topics raised at the conference, especially the translation industry transformation, current development trends and new technologies application in translation aroused great interest of the entire translation community…

Pronouns are the most political parts of speech. In English, defaulting to the feminine “she/her” when referring to a person of unspecified gender, instead of the masculine “he/him,” has long been a way of thumbing one’s nose at the patriarchy. (“When a politician votes, she must consider the public mood.”)……

On September 26, the Marriott Grand Hotel hosted TechInput Group of Companies Business Breakfast for the representatives of oil and gas industry on the topic “Technical translation as an important element of services for the oil and gas industry” dedicated to the 20th anniversary of TechInput…..

By Sarah Lyall
The New York Times
August 31, 2019
The president’s supporters don’t mind his linguistic slips, but lexicographers and grammarians worry about the permanent effect on language.

The New York Times
August 10,2019
The hundreds of thousands of Americans descending on Paris during this year’s tourist season are in for a shock: The city’s waiters, bakers and taxi drivers — and practically anyone else they encounter — will mostly speak to them in eager, serviceable and occasionally even near-perfect English……

The word captures a new way of relating to food, real estate and even moral outrage.
By C. Thi Nguyen and Bekka Williams
The New York Times, Sunday, July 28, 2019

The United Nations Conference Management Service announced the 29 winners of the 14th St. Jerome Translation Contest on May 16, 2019 in Vienna.The contest, held in January, drew over 270 competitors….

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the body in charge of developing and publishing international standards, has published a new standard on legal interpreting…..

On May 15, 2019, TechInput successfully passed certification for conformance with ISO 17100:2015, which applies to translation services. TechInput is among first Russian companies to be certified for conformance with ISO 17100:2015……