The ancient and the novel

摘要

This language business "was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof," to quote Hamlet. It's fluttering with the latest trends in technology and global repercussion, and yet it's still reminiscent of the twelfth century.rnIn this issue in particular, the buzz of novelty settles into the tidy pages of MultiLingual, beginning with in-depth reviews of the new Google Translator Toolkit, courtesy of Ignacio Garcia and Vivian Stevenson, and the new SDL Trados Suite 2009, courtesy of Richard Sikes and Angelika Zerfass.