[ale] [Waaaay OT] Low volume website translation?

[Christopher R. Curzio]

Hahaha!

I would've loved to have seen that. Frasier is one of the two reasons I
miss having television. (The other happens to be Star Trek, which totally
tops of why this is so hilarious.)

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:wq!


Thus Spake "John Wells" <jb at sourceillustrated.com>:
Fri, 8 Nov 2002 10:01:24 -0500 (EST)


> This thread brings to mind this week's episode of Frasier.  Anyone catch
> it?
> 
> Frasier had a need to deliver a speech at his son's bar mitzvah and
> wanted to do it in Hebrew.  He enlisted Noel (the local geek) to help
> translate.
> 
> Short story is that Frasier pissed Noel off, leading Noel to provide the
> entire speech in Klingon.  Watching Frasier deliver this to a roomful
> had me rolling.
> 
> You had to be there, but it was pretty funny ;-).  Be careful who you
> enlist to do your translations.
> 
> John
> 
> Geoffrey said:
> > The problem with translating English to any other language is the lack
> > of consistency in rules and particularily words that have the same
> > spelling but mean entirely different things, such as the following
> > sentence:
> >
> > I LEAD a team of experts in the research on LEAD poisoning
> >
> > Unless the translation engine is very good at recognizing the context
> > in
> >  which the word is used, it fails, and most of them do (how well does
> >  M$ word do grammar checking???  terrible).  The best way to see if
> >  you're
> > getting a reasonable translation is to reverse your translation and
> > see what you get (English->Spanish->English).
> >
> > If you're putting up a real commerce site, I'd recommend you get
> > professional translation.  I was going to put up a Spanish version of
> > my
> >  wife's classroom website, but every translation engine I used
> >  provided
> > inconsistent results, and none were close enough for me to publish it.
> >
> > cforsell wrote:
> >> I have used http://freetranslation.com/ .  Cut and paste your text to
> >> their site and within a few seconds you get the translation (French,
> >> Spanish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese).
> >>
> >> I had a few paragraphs translated and had them checked for accuracy.
> >> The translations were not perfect, but were close enough that the
> >> translator knew what I was saying... and it is free.
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Christopher Bergeron" <christopher at bergeron.com>
> >> To: <ale at ale.org>
> >> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 6:47 PM
> >> Subject: [ale] [Waaaay OT] Low volume website translation?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Guys I apologize that this is sooo way OT, but I can't think of who
> >>> else I could ask.  I'm looking for a low volume (about a page per
> >>> month) website translation.  I want my new eCommerce venture to be
> >in>> German and Spanish.  I'm not sure who can offer this kind of
> >service.>> Would I look online for this or should I try to find a
> >translator in>> the local phonebook?  I know about babelfish; but I'd
> >like a>> professional
> >>
> >> translation.
> >>
> >>>Does anyone know of such a beast/company/organization?
> >>>
> >>>thanks,
> >>>CB
> >>>
> >>>
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> > Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> >
> > I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
> > to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
> >
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