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Regarding translating both ways, I disagree. Myself, I am pretty decent at French --> English, but awful the other way around. Your other points I totally agr
by csytan 17y ago
Regarding translating both ways, I disagree. Myself, I am pretty decent at French --> English, but awful the other way around.
Your other points I totally agree with. At this point, I'm in the midst of bootstrapping, so it'll be awhile before I can do some form of community moderation. This will of course present some new problems to solve, so much time will have to be spent thinking about the pros and cons :)
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback.
- riffraff 17y agoI trick could be to change the interface: from [combo] to [combo] (and viceversa [check box]) This way you can keep your preferred default of only one direction but allow adding the other more easily.
- barry-cotter 17y agoI gotta agree with you on translation not being commutative. I'm at least competent German->English, but doing the reverse brings me the pain.
- wlievens 17y agoQuite the same here. I can read French pretty well, but I make a fool of myself writing it.
- davidw 17y agoI've done professional translations, and in that environment, you only translate from the "other" language to your native language, unless you are well and truly bilingual, as in born, raised and educated in both languages.