I came across a rather enterprising individual who is crafting and selling replicas of infamous “Chinglish” signs.
His Etsy store is called: All Your Signs Are Belong to Us.
Here’s a sample:
Adopt a Typewriter Today
Yes, I have a fondness for typewriters. And, yes, I am old enough to have actually used one regularly.
Mostly, I miss the way they sound.
I’ve memorialized two of my favorite typewriters in these notecards.
Russia’s Internet growth is just getting started
I checked domain registration stats from Russia’s registry and here are the high-level numbers:
If you combine IDNs and ccTLDs, Russia becomes the third-ranked country in terms of country code registrations, behind Germany and the UK.
But what caught my eye is that, according to the registry, only 44% of the population has Internet access (52 million people).
Russia has a great deal of Internet growth ahead of it still. I expect to see a number of newly localized Russian websites as I continue work on the 2012 Web Globalization Report Card this month.
And another thing…
I recently received a t-shirt from Glyph Languages Services that I have to share:
The ampersand is composed of translations of the word “and” into 150 languages — from Afrakaans to Zulu. Very impressive.
Okay, now this is my last post of 2011. And I mean it this time.