{"id":118,"date":"2007-08-06T10:32:11","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/06\/translating-comments\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T07:26:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T12:26:58","slug":"translating-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/06\/translating-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Translating Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Translating a recent foreign-language comment proved too difficult for my usual text translation tool BabelFish<\/a>. First BabelFish wanted me to tell it which language it would be translating “From” but I couldn’t figure that out because the message seemed like randomly paired vowels and consonants (terima kasih, saya begitu gembira, saya akan mencoba dan mengembangkannya. terima kasih). Apparently I wasn’t going to get very far with this until I determined what language this comment was written in.<\/p>\n

The best tool I found for identifying a phrase’s native language was “What Language is This<\/a>” at Ruphus.com which correctly identified the comment as Indonesian. Now all I had to do was find an online translation service which could translate from Indonesian to English.<\/p>\n

BabelFish<\/a> doesn’t translate Indonesian, Google Translation<\/a> doesn’t translate Indonesian, but fortunately Translated.Net<\/a>‘s “Free Translation Service<\/a>” translates Indonesian. Not only that, but it also has an automatic language identification option which I wished I’d found about 10 minutes earlier. In one step, Tranaslated.Net’s software auto-identified the language used in the phrase and provided what looks like a pretty good translation. I wish other translation services were this easy to use. But as good as it is, this translation service has limitations; it only provides a few free translations before requiring you to use their fee-based services. This shouldn’t be a problem as long as you don’t abuse their generosity.<\/p>\n

In case you’re curious, “Terima kasih, saya begitu gembira, saya akan mencoba dan mengembangkannya. Terima kasih.” loosely translates to, “Thanks for the code, I’m going to develop it further. Thanks again.”<\/p>\n

So there you have it. If you occasionally need a quick and easy way to translate a comment, give Translated.Net<\/a>‘s Free Translation Service<\/a> a try. It worked for me.<\/p>\n

If you’re still having trouble translating a comment left on your blog, you might be able to find help at Word2Word.Com’s page of Free Translation Services<\/a> which lists over 50 free specialty (i.e. Papiamentu to English) translation services.<\/p>\n

Good luck and happy communicating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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