Language tips in a business report

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Now spell…ABANDON

Today’s newspapers reported on the collapse of the Microsoft-Yahoo deal; The Beijing News illustrated its report with a CFP image of an AP wire report.

What’s especially interesting about the image is that it’s actually a screenshot of someone using Kingsoft’s instant translation software, which gives tool-tip popup translations whenever you mouse over words.

Although they won’t be able to make use of the text-to-speech functionality, readers can still learn what “abandon” means.

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