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Translation with a Conscience

Translation Party is a website built using Google Translate. The idea is to take an English sentence, translate into Japanese, then back into English, and keep going back and forth until an equilibrium is reached and the translation stabilizes. I tried... ...full story at Sinosplice

from Sinosplice on Sat, Aug 08 2009

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28 Aug 09 visit Google Docs Now With Translation Feature  »  Google Blogoscoped Google Docs can now translate documents. Just pick Tools -> Translate document, and then a language (like Chinese, German, English, Italian, Japanese, and many others). A new window will open showing you the automatic translation, and if you like it...
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25 Jun 07 visit Lost in translation  »  Engaging China We've all laughed over badly translated English menus and signage in China but the message usually gets through. It can be more of a challenge trying to understand the fractured English of instruction manuals. But sometimes the quality of the translation...
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09 May 08 visit China: Google Kingsoft Translation  »  Global Voices William Long introduced the release of a new Chinese-English translation tool by Google and Kingsoft [zh]. Fons also writes about it at China Herald.

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