TRANSLATING THE FORUM TO DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.

DEEMAN223344 · Post by **DEEMAN223344** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:38 am

To view the forum in Russian, click HERE.

DEEMAN223344 · Post by **DEEMAN223344** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:42 am

DP. TO VIEW THE PROGRESS FOR WA3 in FRENCH, CLICK HERE.

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 3:59 am

Which doesn't really matter right?

Anyways the forum in Chinese: http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_ur ... =Translate

It looked funny for me because babelfish translated billy bob as Tin can suddenly move

~xpr'd~ · Post by **~xpr'd~** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:03 pm

German.

Der ganze diskussionsausschuss auf Deutsch. Können sie das glauben? :3

Blast!10 · Post by **Blast!10** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:46 pm

The Hebrew translation has some serious problems. All these translators aren't reliable at all. If you really want someone to translate something to another language, you need to find a native speaker of said language.

~xpr'd~ · Post by **~xpr'd~** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 2:07 pm

"דיונים Off-Topic"

epic fail

Post by **billy bob** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 6:55 pm

Blast!10 wrote:The Hebrew translation has some serious problems.

Very true. I also can't tell if this is a "sin" or a "shin": ש, I see no dot on either side.

~xpr'd~ · Post by **~xpr'd~** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 7:15 pm

There are no vowels in normal hebrew. You must know every word. :#

Post by **billy bob** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 7:17 pm

~xpr'd~ wrote:There are no vowels in normal hebrew. You must know every word. :#

Not normal Hebrew, original Hebrew, I think.

Blast!10 · Post by **Blast!10** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 7:18 pm

Actually, even people who already know to read the niqud (vowels) can misread words.

richmond2010 · Post by **richmond2010** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 1:55 am

It is also funny when the Babel Fish translated the forum into Traditional Chinese, the word ‘computer’ turns into calculator (計算機)!

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:13 am

richmond2010 wrote:It is also funny when the Babel Fish translated the forum into Traditional Chinese, the word ‘computer’ turns into calculator (計算機)!

If that's in Simplified Chinese I won't be surprised at all, but this is Traditional Chinese... Oh well.

BTw Do you live inside the Pearl River Delta?

richmond2010 · Post by **richmond2010** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 1:31 pm

No... I live in Singapore.

Post by **billy bob** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:41 pm

What I don't understand is if you translate a word with multiple meanings which meaning will it pick? It could easily pick the/a wrong one, and it can't check the context the word is in either.

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:13 am

"Language is the source of misunderstandings."
— Antoine de Saunt-Exupéry in The Little Prince

richmond2010 · Post by **richmond2010** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 5:23 am

tyteen4a03 wrote:"Language is the source of misunderstandings."

AJQZC · Post by **AJQZC** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 11:19 am

richmond2010 wrote:It is also funny when the Babel Fish translated the forum into Traditional Chinese, the word ‘computer’ turns into calculator (計算機)!

That's an alternative Chinese translation for 'computer' (before the word 电脑 became more popular, I think).

If I'm not wrong, the Taiwanese people still use this translation.