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Contracted local university CS / Math students from China. Done on an exchange basis where I helped with English and tech issues. They helped proofread machine
by indescions_2017 9y ago
Contracted local university CS / Math students from China. Done on an exchange basis where I helped with English and tech issues. They helped proofread machine translations. Made some excellent friends. And now I have an invitation to visit Henan Province as well ;)
What I am really interested in investigating is what is the minimal subset of words or concepts that makes a website or service useful. Is it 10,000? Or closer to 500. Because if is the latter, localization by standardizing the interface around these usability 'primitives' common to every culture would make the translation process very fast.
Essentially localization becomes a kind of "growth hack" itself. Having English, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Hindi / Urdu, etc. Covers a vast swath of humanity. But the marginal addition of say, Polish or Dutch, can result in an unexpected boost!
- Zyst 9y agoI've heard the most common 2000 words in languages tend to make up the bulk of written, and spoken communication. Don't quote me on it though, since I don't have any real sources on this. It reminds me of an editor that was submitted once in Show HN, that only lets you type the most common 1000 words[1]. [1] https://github.com/mortenjust/cleartext-mac https://github.com/mortenjust/cleartext-mac
- Jun8 9y agoThis is an excellent idea. It’s definitely not 10k, my estimate would be <500. This could be a great open source project, if one does not exist already.