Comments on: Translation software: Uniting the blogosphere

By: juan-alberto

juan-alberto — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:26:34 +0000

when will it be??? hmmm…

By: reynz

reynz — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:54:38 +0000

just like what Raul had said, it will truly be a challenge for them to translate Reyna’s language hehehe

but i can’t wait for the translation software to get ripe. one world. scary.
.-= reynz´s last blog ..Ampatuan patriarch gave Arroyo big win that fueled his rise to power, Part 2 of 2 =-.

By: Silver

Silver — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:31:07 +0000

I dont mind getting multi-lingual or welcoming the translation software. As a blogger, you will be able to get your message across diverse and huge number of audiences. I am not also afraid to learn new language and culture as well. The more the merrier. Somehow dreaming to become a polyglot someday like Jose Rizal.

Imagine Barrio Siete penetrating the Chinese audience. Hheheheh. Or Barrio Siete establishing a niche in Russia or India. As in WOW moment yun for the Barrio and the writers as well. That will benefit Barrio Siete big time and also the blogs of the writers as well.

By: reynz

reynz — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:37:06 +0000

hahaha virtual, who knows maybe it's already coming, cloud computing is already a reality anyway... welll sorta hehe .-= reynz´s last blog ..Privileged Spits =-.

By: Raúl Ibáñez

Raúl Ibáñez — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:17:09 +0000

You know, I’ve been waiting a long time for translation software to come of age. I’m waiting for young people to come up with a virtual translator. Something you put on your head or plug into a la Matrix and the person you’re talking to has the same thing so you’re sort of speaking the same language at the same time. If that happens, you won’t need to learn languages. You just download them into the program from the cloud.

By: reynz

reynz — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:42:56 +0000

aha! so you must be speaking a number of languages then? i’m struggling with my french. i could not find anybody to speak with. soon, it will just be foreign to me.

but yeah, i expect translation software to be the next leader given the saturation of the internet. it’s just a logical path, ain’t it? and the reason why i say that gay lingo (esp in the philippines) has to be reinvented because of the tranlation hahaha precisely because gays prefer not to be understood or at least that’s why we have the gay lingo hahaha
.-= reynz´s last blog ..Translation software: Uniting the blogosphere =-.

By: Raúl Ibáñez

Raúl Ibáñez — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:26:30 +0000

I liked working for Berlitz. One of my favorite odd jobs first time on U.S. soil in the mid 70s. Lots of smart multilinguals. I got paid nicely for technical translation. For 2 days of work, I could pay rent and go to the clubs the rest of the time. Have you tried putting in a paragraph of text into a freeware translation program? Watch your paragraph morph into embarrassment and shame. Live translation has the same problem. Nuance and local usage and the usual context mishaps. Translation software should get better with time but not by much until they invent subdermal implants that let you read somebody else’s thoughts. Possible? Don’t know. Meanwhile, you need human intervention. At courts, even at the U.N. Remember that one time Hillary Clinton got miffed in Africa over somebody’s question which turned out to be a translation goof up? Imagine how many wars may have been the after effect of bad translation.

And gay lingo? Especially in the odd polyglottic Pinoy tongues version, it’s untranslatable!