Yes, thank you for considering this. It would be a big help. I'm working with Thai and it's a pretty loosely constructed language so multiple iterations of reversal and revision are usually necessary. This would be a great help.
On Oct 24, 6:26 pm, Xi Cheng (Google employee) wrote: > thanks for the suggestion and support. > > On Oct 24, 7:57 pm, wwkudu wrote: > > > > > > > > > Suggestion: Provide optional "backtranslation", which takes the > > result text and puts it through areversetranslation. This could help > > see how a native speaker of the target language would understand the > > result, and would help in tweaking until the intended result is > > obtained. > > > E.g. I translate sentence Se from English to French, obtaining > > resulting sentence Rf. If "translate back" is selected, then > > automatically a second results Re is show which has taken French Rf > > and used the translate engine to translate into English giving result > > Re. > > > If I did atranslationwith the option (say checkbox) unselected, then > > selecting it would automatically do thereverse/backtranslation. > > > Thanks for a great tool. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
