Eh, if you all would just give up on non-english languages, we wouldn't have translation issues do deal with. No more i18n, no more paid translation teams or automatic translations to worry about...
(in case the smiley doesn't translate, no I don't think this and was just trying to be funny)
Seriously, though, that's a great example of why automated translation fails. When you only translate individual words without understanding or including context in the translation, then your translation is going to be pretty rough...
(in case the smiley doesn't translate, no I don't think this and was just trying to be funny)Seriously, though, that's a great example of why automated translation fails. When you only translate individual words without understanding or including context in the translation, then your translation is going to be pretty rough...
David H Nebinger:
Eh, if you all would just give up on non-english languages, we wouldn't have translation issues do deal with. No more i18n, no more paid translation teams or automatic translations to worry about...
Seriously, though, that's a great example of why automated translation fails. When you only translate individual words without understanding or including context in the translation, then your translation is going to be pretty rough...
David, the solution is for everyone to adopt Esperanto. Problem solved!
Jonathon Omahen:
David, the solution is for everyone to adopt Esperanto. Problem solved!
I tell my daughter all the time that English is a harder language than most others. Esperanto would be an acceptable choice, but the conservatives here in the US will never go for it
David H Nebinger:
I tell my daughter all the time that English is a harder language than most others. Esperanto would be an acceptable choice, but the conservatives here in the US will never go for it
It's true...for now. I'm biding my time and secretly developing a killer Esperanto course to train people up to conversational fluency in 150 hours of study. Then, when everything collapses and English takes a nosedive Esperanto can win everything!!!!
Or.....not. ;)
I agree that automated translation needs to stop. Most widespread machine translation engines, though, aren't doing word-for-word translation. Instead, their using heuristics and a statistical analysis model based on an extant corpus, which corrections coming from the target language community. This can have widely variant results, sometimes quite hilarious. But since machine translation moved away from syntactic processing to essentially crowdsourcing, its results are even less applicable to software, where context drives very specific interpretations of small amounts of text.
Point taken, though. Unfortunately the majority opinion is that "something is better than nothing", though I may not be convinced of it.
Point taken, though. Unfortunately the majority opinion is that "something is better than nothing", though I may not be convinced of it.
