Yunker to Craigslist: “What took you so long?”

Noted web language researcher analyzes new features.

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English (750 px)

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Deutsch (1,030px)

Above: Images from John Yunker’s Global by Design work.

Yunker publishes an annual evaluation of globalization issues, The Web Globalization Report Card. In this story, he comments on the recent move by Craigslist to include limited language translation.

The images above, while deceptively “simple,” speak to basic issues that are vitally important to global internet translation.

See some related Geotypografika posts here. ¡Uno y dos!






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