REYKJAVIK, Iceland — You think the Justice Department has it in for Bill Gates and the marketers of Microsoft Corp.? Try an earful from the Icelandic Language Institute. “They are nothing less than ...

We've all been there - you're trying to communicate with someone who doesn't speak your language and you don't speak theirs, and no amount of charades and gesturing will do the trick. You need a ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — When an Icelander arrives at an office building and sees “Solarfri” posted, he or she needs no further explanation for the empty premises: The word means “when staff get an ...

Google Translate doesn’t always get every translation right, but it is useful enough to get the gist of a Webpage or even a menu written in a foreign language. It’s machine translation, so what do you ...

The digital age is killing the Icelandic language, said Ingibjörg Rósa Björnsdóttir. Alas, it simply isn’t cost-effective for any company to create IT interfaces in Icelandic, a language spoken by ...