Comments on: Weird wit by Google translation technology

By: Pancho

Pancho — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:49:35 +0000

I can’t get over the crime Microsoft committed by translating “cell” as “celda” for all uses in Spanish. There is a good Spanish word “célula” for brain cells, cells in a table etc. (here’s where the MS error kills me!). There is another word “celda” for the monk’s or the prisoner’s cell. But that’s the only one microsoft uses its wisdom.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:52:41 +0000

I use google translate for translating websites. But i didn’t realized this.. But it a nice online tool for translating Website.

By: Patty

Patty — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:48:33 +0000

Funny how programs like that can work :)

But Google translate is still very promising though. I like the fact that you can ‘train’ it. Makes it more trustworthy than even some of the software that you’d have to pay for.

By: Anthere

Anthere — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:37:10 +0000

Yesterday, they mentionned in the french press that “Nicolas Sarkozy” from french to english, translated to “Nicolas Bush”. The journalist mentionned that only one word (Nicolas Sarkozy) had the glitch.

But I see that they have “fixed” the glitch. Still, that was fun :-))))

By: Erik Zachte

Erik Zachte — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:24:10 +0000

Wikipedia translates in any language with western alphabet to Wikipedia, except for English-Spanish where it translates to ‘Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español’ :0

Fortunately our Spanish speaking fellow encyclopedians can learn of the existence of Wikipedia by translating ‘Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español’ into English.

By: llywrch

llywrch — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:18:34 +0000

I guess you don’t actually exist, Domas. You’re just a sockpuppet manipulated by the Wikimedia-Creative Commons-American Library Association conspiracy. ;-)

Geoff

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By: notafish

notafish — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:31:30 +0000

Fabulous. Love the comment ” a bit of Florence inside”. We could make stickers and plaster them all over Wikipedia :-)

By: Anthere

Anthere — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:27:45 +0000

????

AMAZING !

By: Mathias Schindler

Mathias Schindler — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:59:39 +0000

Well. I am going to ask them, but I have a certain suspicion.

Mathias