Monday, January 23, 2012

Do people leave alta vista and other translation online and prefer using Google translator?

once i use alta vista etc. but after finding google translator more adorable, i leave them all.|||None of the machine translation software is particularly good, and the greater the difference between the two languages, the more problems there are likely to be. (However, with work on the part of the software folks, they can improve the software by making it sensitive to certain markers.)



I don't use any of them for serious translation. However, if one of my friends on Facebook has other friends that post in a language I don't speak, I may plug their comments in just to see if I can get at least a general idea of the conversation. Sometimes I can, sometimes I have NO idea.



I tend to use Google translate because it has a lot of languages and I can remember the website - but I haven't found it to be any better than any other. Sometimes, if for some reason I decide I really want to know what people are saying, I will use more than one. Each one provides some different clues, so that can help me get the general idea with a *little* more accuracy.

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