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We did an experiment in my societies and culture class where we tested translations between several different languages using several different services. What'
by bherms 16y ago
We did an experiment in my societies and culture class where we tested translations between several different languages using several different services. What's really interesting to see is when you translate between a language and back again, or go through multiple channels to origin--eg, English->French->German->English. We still have a long way to go before machines can provide perfect translations, but that's part of the fun right? Pushing the boundaries and finding new inventive ways to solve the problem of allowing anyone in the world to communicate with anyone else by bringing down the language barrier. We're closer today than we've ever been, and we'll be closer tomorrow, and so on.
- jamesbkel 16y agoYou may enjoy this http://translationparty.com/ http://translationparty.com/
- jodrellblank 16y agoAlso http://tashian.com/multibabel/ http://tashian.com/multibabel/
- scotty79 16y agoThis is amusing: http://translationparty.com/#7966687 http://translationparty.com/#7966687
- slowpoison 16y agoHow about this one? http://translationparty.com/#7967523 http://translationparty.com/#7967523
- eru 16y agoYou should try the same games with human translators for comparison. Perhaps using mturk, to make it cheap (although non-professional, but at least comparable in price to Google translate).
- VBprogrammer 16y agoExactly what I was going to point out. There really is no such thing as a perfect translation given that human translators will use there own interpretation and knowledge of both languages to try and approximate the same meaning.