The World in Words June 2009 news: Iran and translation, a search engine is sick in Chinese, and a drug ring’s Arabic dialects
Patrick Cox and Carol Hills select the top five language-related stories from June. Among them: Google translation gets to work on the streets of Teheran; Microsoft’s choice of Bing as the name for its search engine to rival Google may not go down well in China; a music festival in Quebec runs afoul of language sensitivies; and a drug ring in Pennsylvannia uses Iraqi Arabic dialects in its communications.
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