http://boingboing.net/2009/12/16/translatedby-crowdso.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Mon, 20 May 2013 19:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://boingboing.net/2009/12/16/translatedby-crowdso.html#comment-666632 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-666632 This is a cool idea, and I bet that it will function well for Russians who want access to something written in English. The trouble starts when they are trying to go in the other direction. Most Russians don't speak English well enough to do a better Russian-to-English translation than Google Translations, and I don't think that many native English speakers have enough knowledge of Russian to participate. Also, you shouldn't ever use this kind of service for important texts, because we all know what happens when quality control is crowdsourced together with content generation (think Batuta hoax on Wikipedia, etc.) This is a cool idea, and I bet that it will function well for Russians who want access to something written in English. The trouble starts when they are trying to go in the other direction. Most Russians don’t speak English well enough to do a better Russian-to-English translation than Google Translations, and I don’t think that many native English speakers have enough knowledge of Russian to participate. Also, you shouldn’t ever use this kind of service for important texts, because we all know what happens when quality control is crowdsourced together with content generation (think Batuta hoax on Wikipedia, etc.)

]]> http://boingboing.net/2009/12/16/translatedby-crowdso.html#comment-672845 cnawan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-672845 I'd like to do grammar-polishing for something like this, but it's hard to know the context they need. Is 'Keep silent' good enough to understand, or is 'Please be quiet' better for a sign in a public place (state owned, private merchant..)? I’d like to do grammar-polishing for something like this, but it’s hard to know the context they need.
Is ‘Keep silent’ good enough to understand, or is ‘Please be quiet’ better for a sign in a public place (state owned, private merchant..)?

]]> http://boingboing.net/2009/12/16/translatedby-crowdso.html#comment-666477 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-666477 And not only into Eastern Euro languages, but to a whole bunch of languages: Arabic, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Portugese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Udmurt, Mari, Klingon, Quenya. And not only into Eastern Euro languages, but to a whole bunch of languages: Arabic, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Portugese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Udmurt, Mari, Klingon, Quenya.

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