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90- SunSeven
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Since we have a lot of non-english and ESL members and readers, I think it will be a good idea to have a 'translate this page' widget or something similar. For example I get considerable traffic from google.com.ph, google.com.pk, google.de, google.se, google.fr, google.fi, google.com.br, google.com.mx , google.nl, google.no, google.it etc.
Excellent Suggestion SunSeven.
99- Uninvited Writer
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As long as the translation actually makes sense
97- Mark Knowles
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I honestly think it is a waste of time. I have a bunch of foreign language versions of my site and I despair of getting it translated automatically and making any sense.
Sir Mark: I went to ihaozhai but did not understand. Had there been a "Translate This: Button, it would have been useful.
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- Mark Knowles
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lol
Ihaozhai is a Chinese language version of my main blog. And a translate this button would have done you no good at all. The auto systems just turn it into gobbledegook
88- Pete Michner
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Maybe one day there could be other hubpages just like how the English Wikipedia is at http://en.wikipedia.org and the Spanish one is at http://es.wikipedia.org and so on, the English hubpages could be http://en.hubpages.com, the Chinese one http://cn.hubpages.com, etc...
P.S. how do you make those examples I just gave un-hyperlinked?- 97
- Mark Knowles
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Hubpages have talked about a foreign language version. The problem, of course, is you need a system admin that is fluent in that language
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- Pete Michner
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您做一個好观点
(I just said he made a good point) Sir Mark: "gobbledegook" Thank you for this info. I will work on this "Translation" Topic and see how useful it actually is ! Never tried it very seriously.
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- Mark Knowles
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It is easy enough to try out. Just throw any URL into this and hey presto! Gobbledegook
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en Mark Knowles wrote:
It is easy enough to try out. Just throw any URL into this and hey presto! Gobbledegook
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=enMaybe if you put in gobbledegook, you'll get something sensible back.
99- Princessa
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Mark Knowles wrote:
I honestly think it is a waste of time. I have a bunch of foreign language versions of my site and I despair of getting it translated automatically and making any sense.
automatic translation are a waste of time, I have never used one that is worth recommending. Usually they just make translating longer and more difficult.
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- SunSeven
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Ah! Babel
SunSeven wrote:
Ah! Babel
Oh! No SunSeven, Are you getting jealous of princessa's new avatar?
Sir Mark: translated my website from English to Hindi through your suggested site. It makes the job even worse. I can do it much better manually. But I am still wondering on the Technology/Programming they use. I am myself a Programmer and an expert in Visual Basic and have developed several programs. But this translation programming is out of my head.
Pete Michner wrote:
您做一個好观点
(I just said he made a good point)Just translated and got - 您做一個好观点 = You do a good view (What does this mean? !@#$%^&)
Excellent suggestion SunSeven, it is like a welcome to our visitors, but in my opinion this is not the time for the HubPages to do it.
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87- Squimpleton
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Like everyone else said. Auto-translators are usually not good enough. The best option would be to make alternate hubpages domain and have the authors manually translate their hubs themselves kind of like in wikipedia.
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- SunSeven
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premsingh wrote:
SunSeven wrote:
Ah! Babel
Oh! No SunSeven, Are you getting jealous of princessa's new avatar?
Babel = http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seri … ries=babel
