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12 Comments
- inactive, on 11/13/2007, -3/+10Don't use that crap.
Your page will look completely retarded in other languages. It's the worst possible thing you could do to a business website. If you need to reach a multi-language audience, you need to get your page translated by a real person.
Information posted as advertisement and legal notices make you legally liable. An automatic translator makes a lot of mistakes. You don't want to advertise something you can't do or can't sell on your site because of a mistake. - meshman, on 11/12/2007, -0/+4Oh sure... This will work. Try the French Canadian translation. If a comma is out of place you'll be barraged with... not polite requests to fix it but hell spawned flaming the worst discussion thread has not yet seen.
- inactive, on 11/13/2007, -1/+5I translated with BabelFish and is awful...
- Avian00, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2There's a great Extension for Firefox called "translator" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/336 ... that puts a button in your browser that you click and the page gets piped through the translator of your choice (of course mine is Google). The result is actually quite nice, with most of the formatting being preserved.
Also, Google's translating engine allows you to hover over sentences to see the original text. You can even suggest a better translation if you're knowledgeable enough in the language.
By the way, I don't represent either translator or Google. I just wanted to share this tip that I have found quite helpful. - insub2, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1most likely because some countries speak more than one language.
- mrynit, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1why is it a faux-pas to use flags to represent languages?
- pezholio, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Agreed. Online translation tools are almost completely useless unless you're translating single words or short sentences. If I see automated translation links on a website, I immediately think 'amateur'
- inactive, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1And the opposite. Most french speaking people don't live in France. Most English speaking people don't like in the UK.
- sambryce, on 11/12/2007, -0/+0Shouldn't they be called gadgets?
- TravelTom, on 11/12/2007, -0/+0Going to test it now, on my website. Tried BabelFish before it was not very useful
- aywwts4, on 11/13/2007, -2/+1New ruler: Now on of all the commentaries it must first be translated to one another language, and then it stops backwards in the English before being affixed. Debtor.
- robinsun, on 11/13/2007, -3/+0very useful
Thanks for the shout
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