Google Translate can be useful for us to decide whether a document in another language is much the same as an existing doc (and thus may not be worth the effort to translate and edit).
Jean On Wednesday, June 15, 2011, David Paenson <davepo...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi David, > > I think I'll do it during the summer. I guessed google wouldn't be much > good. Have been doing translations all my life and studied linguistics in > London a long time ago. Human languages are just too complex and too > different from each other to be tackled by any programme. > > Once the translation is done, it would be nice if somebody would check it > and eventually perhaps 'adopt' it for the future. > > Yours > Dave > > > > On 14 June 2011 15:55, David Nelson <comme...@traduction.biz> wrote: > >> Hi David, >> >> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 00:20, David Paenson <davepo...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hope something useful comes out of the automatic translation, though I'm >> > very sceptical about that. >> >> Well, I just fed it through Google Translate. If one is used to >> dealing with mangled English, it would potentially be possible to use >> the result and rewrite it into correct English - although very >> time-consuming. But it would be just as quick for an experienced >> translator of German to do a faithful, high-quality translation - or >> it might possibly be quicker if one takes into account the formatting >> work also involved. >> >> Google Translate is not yet at the point of putting efficient >> translators out of a job... >> >> Moreover, it's going off-line as a free service later this year... >> >> I must admit that I wouldn't have time for this job myself in the >> coming months, as I'd see myself working on developing >> alfresco.libreoffice.org and contributing to the large quantity of >> work already waiting to be done on existing English-language >> LibreOffice documentation. >> >> Is there anyone else able to take on the job of translating David's >> student guide? >> >> -- >> David Nelson >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to >> documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted >> >> > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
