Useful Links

There are a number of very useful resources on the Internet for language professionals as well as those who are interested in language. Excel Translations would like to make you aware of some of them.

Links for translators

Eurodicautom - a phenomenal terminology source between 12 major languages (http://europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/Controller)
Computer User High-Tech Dictionary - a searchable glossary of computer and Internet words, acronyms, html tags, emoticons and abbreviations (http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/index.html)
Multilingual Glossary of technical and popular medical terms in nine European Languages (http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/welcome.html)
Yamada Language Guides - An archive of non-English fonts, language-related web connections, news groups and mailing lists (http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides.html)
Yamada Foreign Language Fonts - both Mac and Windows fonts for hundreds of languages (http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts.html)
Microsoft Glossaries - Free download of Microsoft's glossaries in all major languages with MS approved terminology (ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/MSDN/NewUp/Glossary)
YourDictionary.com - A Web of Online Dictionaries (http://www.yourdictionary.com/)

Organizations

American Translators Association (http://www.atanet.org/)
Northern California Translators Association (http://www.ncta.org/)
The American Association of Language Specialists (http://www.taals.net/)
The Society for Technical Communication (http://stc.org/)
The HTML Writers Guild (http://www.hwg.org/)
The Software & Information Industry Association (http://www.spa.org/)

General language links

Trados fine translation tools (http://www.trados.com/)
The Translator's Home Companion (http://www.lai.com/lai/companion.html)
The Human Languages Page - a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources (http://www.june29.com/HLP/)
Ethnologue - Languages of the World (http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/)
Collins Cobuild (a division of HarperCollins) - Cobuild works with a huge "corpus" of modern English text on computer to analyze language usage: word meaning, grammar, pragmatics, idioms and so on (http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/index.html)

Language humor

Mondegreens (http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/mondegreens.shtml)
An archive of language-related humor (http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/)
English and Language Humor (http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/6174/h--engli.html)