On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 15:53, Martin Denham <mjden...@gmail.com> wrote: >... has proposed doing a translation of all languages using a Google tool > but I don't know how well the Google tool would handle Chinese
I haven't seen the original discussion context that this comment references, but having had some experience in the area of translated software I wanted to make a comment about the viability of machine translation for software interfaces: Forget about how well it handles or doesn't handle Chinese -- for which there is undoubtedly a large corpus of documents and hand fixed translations to at least give it a fighting chance -- but this is a crazy idea for many minority languages more recently introduced to the world of machine translation. I've seen some software interfaces that were obviously done this way and they are the subject of nothing but ridicule even if the base software might have been a good thing. I love Google Translate and their various language tools, but let's put the effort into finding local translators before throwing software out there! Caleb _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page