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gTranslate - Translate any text in Firefox
menjatallarins.com — "With gTranslate you can translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. The extension uses the Google translation services to translate the text."
kevinrose- 1447 diggs
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- tysonhy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7This sounds pretty good. Great Find!
- beelz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Dies ertönt hübsch gut. Großer Fund!
- ddrirc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16これはきれいなよい鳴る。大きい発見!
- warbird, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21ddrirc:
You just proved how much the Japanese translation sucks :) - saroth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16これはきれいなよい鳴る。大きい発見! -> This clean is good, you sound. Large discovery!
- PaulOwen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Professional translation ddrirc's poor Japanese attempt:
"This is a nice good play. Large detection!"
(hakken here can't mean discovery because it's not compounded correctly)
What you meant to say (or what the translator meant) is probably:
kore ha iizo. daihakken da!
(I've romanized it because digg's "Update" function incorrectly parses 2-bit encoding).
And it's not a big discovery at all.
It's only really good for mangled nonsensical translation.
This is a principle of language which seems really obvious to me - a whole science dedicated to Natural Language Processing has been around for decades, and if they can't figure natural speech out, what makes ANYONE think that they can buld a system to map it accurately between distinct languages?
Never underestimate the services of a good translator, and never overestimate the usefulness of automatic translation. - TheComputerMutt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Original English: This sounds pretty good. Great Find!
...to French: Ceci retentit très bon. Grande Trouvaille!
...to French: Fève de très de retentit de Ceci. Grande Trouvaille!
...to English: Broad bean of very of resounds of This. Great Lucky find!
...to English: Broad bean of very of resounds of This. Great Lucky find!
...to Italian: Fava di molto dei resounds di questa. Ritrovamento fortunato grande!
...to English: Fava a lot of the resounds of this. Large fortunate Ritrovamento!
...to Spanish: Muchos de Fava de los resounds de esto. ¡Ritrovamento afortunado grande!
...to English: Many of Fava of resounds of this. Great lucky Ritrovamento!
...to Japenese: これのresounds のFava の多数。大きく幸運な Ritrovamento!
...to English: Large number of Fava of this resounds. It is large the fortunate Ritrovamento!
The reports of Google's next translator make it sounds incredible, I wonder how what it would make of this process? - PaulOwen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9これはいいぞ。大発見だ。
is a more correct translation.
(note to site admins - you need to use unicode parsing for the "Update" function too!) - ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@thecomputermatt:
I don't know about the others... but the spanish translation really...totally...deeply sucks. I don't think a spanish cavemen would have said it like that :). - DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Somebody set us up the extension!
- Meshyf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Tripa del hübsch del ertönt de los dados. Un Fondo Más grueso
- saroth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Tripa del hübsch del ertönt de los dados. Un Fondo Más grueso -> Tripe of the pretilly of the sounds in the dice. A thicker find.
- ChemEng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11If only Firefox had a translation tool to understand what the above posters are saying... ;)
- ChemEng, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Double post.
- heanol, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1This sounds prettily well. Large find!
- EmileVictor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2i sex this. This prismatic is totally rad.
- timeblind, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2That rings sexy good. Large finding !
- bigpeeler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This will come in handy translating all those Pig-Latin porn sites I'm so fond of.
- Fosnez, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3Or one could just use Opera, that has in built in....
- mc1123, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6who uses opera?
- takeda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"who uses opera?"
Only people who tried both: FF and O :)
- georgemarine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes this is pretty cool, the hover feature is what i was waiting for rathere than running to Google or Babelfish all the time.
- deepsub, on 10/12/2007, -13/+5Firefox sucks!
*ducks* - s14sh3r, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I am loving this find! I am full to bursting and touting a tremendous woody! Thank me.
- PaulOwen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Nip the wax tadpole!
- DEFSMAC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4this is pretty sweet. will go nice will the leet key extension for translating english into leet speak.
http://leetkey.mozdev.org/ - aaron_dyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yet another reason to dump ie and move to the firefox browser, if only we could get it to the Enterprise space
- cbdgr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It would be cool if it could automatically detect the language and automatically translate it without any user interaction
- Rapax, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3You mean...this is just like the built in function Opera has had for ages? Wow!
- Hexxagonal, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5FYI...
-= OPERA HAS TRANSLATE BUILT IN =-
make the switch - fatsobob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Its good stuff.
- jdmacor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hasn't the google toolbar been doing this already for a while now?... on firefox and ie?...
- zentro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Can I have a drag of what you're all smoking in here?
- zinic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Even if it has been built into Opera for so long, this is still a nice addition to my FireFox extensions.
- ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Esta extension para firefox vale verga!
- mc1123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2this extension for firefox is worth yard!
- Osjpr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This is great =)
- tinzy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"Translate _any_ text in Firefox"?
That was an exaggeration.
Nonetheless, seems like a very helpful extension, although I want to see more more languages supported. - CumShot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ayudame Obi-Wan Kenobi, eres mi unica esperanza. - "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope."
- ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That wasn't so bad
- CumShot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Recuerda: la fortaleza de un Jedi emana de la Fuerza - "Remember: a Jedi's strength flows from the Force." --Yoda
- krewemaynard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"My hovercraft is full of eels.
Do you waaaant to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?
If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? I am no longer infected."
Who needs Google? My Hungarian-to-English book is tops!
"Drop your panties, Sir William; I cannot wait 'til lunchtime." - FunkstarDeLux, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1This is sooooo old. No digg :-(
- skidzilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Another great Firefox extension for learning Japanese is Rikaichan.
http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/- bloodborne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Agreed, using it right now! Love the kanji feature.
- haochi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This is old, it was on digg for more than a day!(no this post)
- MOGua, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Google is evil; they removed Chinese Traditional from their translation tool.
If you were Chinese you would know how big of a "kiss-up" that is to the Chinese government. (Complicated matter between Taiwan and China)
Even Yahoo! still has Chinese Traditional in their language tool, and they've been in China longer than Google. (Maybe because Jerry Yang is Taiwanese...) - DawgBytez, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0http://babelfish.altavista.com/ is still the best :)
- mattroberts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its good - the extension within firefox is incredibly convenient. Thanks for the heads up.
- navinjohnson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Me gusta!
- Specter, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1known about this for awhile
- Coreguy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1很好用...嗯哪
- Quality26, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I suppose I can't blame the extention, but the translation is spotty at best. It keeps thinking Portugese is French, and struggles with both.
- XMORDECAIX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is fantastic. I really could use this since I import many games.
digg++++++++++++++++++++++ - Tommstein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Konqueror can translate entire pages.
- elsnow77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this ***** is soo old...i have been using this for forever and a day.
you guys just digg the hell out of whatever Kevin Rose submits
No offense kevin, you're really funny on diggnation, but if anyone else posted this, it would get like 18 diggs - teitoku, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Man, would open source have ANYTHING if they didn't constantly steal every last idea from large closed-source apps?
- Pharoah6905, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I actually just reformated my hard drive and was looking for some good firefox extensions and so i downloaded this yesterday and have been very happy with the results so far
- amoeba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I recommend checking out http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/
It translates languages back and forth several times using babelfish, with highly amusing results.
example:
Original English Text:
Digg is a popular technology news website frequented by curious earthlings.
Translated to French:
Digg est un site Web populaire de nouvelles de technologie fréquenté
par les terriens curieux.
Translated back to English:
Digg is a popular Web site of news of technology attended by the land
curious ones.
Translated to German:
Digg ist eine populäre Web site der Nachrichten der Technologie
bedient durch das Land die neugierige.
Translated back to English:
Digg is served a popular web site of the message of the technology by
the country the curious.
Translated to Italian:
Digg è servito ad un Web site popolare del messaggio della tecnologia
dal paese il curioso.
Translated back to English:
Digg is served to a popular Web site of the message of the technology
from the country the onlooker.
Translated to Portuguese:
Digg é servido a um Web site popular da mensagem da tecnologia do
país o espectador.
Translated back to English:
Digg is served to a popular Web site of the message of the technology
of the country the spectator.
Translated to Spanish:
Digg se sirve a un sitio popular del Web del mensaje de la
tecnología del país el espectador.
Translated back to English:
Digg uses to a popular site as the Web as the message as the
technology as the country the spectator.
//using gTranslate
//loves it- GraceMolloy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Now that's funny
- kenni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great information. Have a look at http://www.iwebtool.com/tools/ & http://www.iwebtool.com/
- digger287, on 04/13/2008, -0/+0Just add ".zix.it" to any url and get the same effect.
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