Thanks for the translation insights...It's very interesting how the Web and social media sites are dealing with a global audience. Perhaps esparanto is in the future of global web communicators...
John Gillett
· 1 year ago
Thanks for the translation insights...It's very interesting how the Web and social media sites are dealing with a global audience. Perhaps esparanto is in the future of global web communicators...
Claudine
· 1 year ago
I think that they can do better. They need to hire a professional team of translators/editors to review the work to make sure that it is correct. Some of the mistakes could be extremely embarrassing.
Claudine
· 1 year ago
I think that they can do better. They need to hire a professional team of translators/editors to review the work to make sure that it is correct. Some of the mistakes could be extremely embarrassing.
Like you say, it can create strong brand loyalty, but in my opinion this mainly works for smaller communities. When a company has just received a pot of gold from Microsoft it just seems like they are being cheap to ask the members to translate.
With all the new languages rolled out they obviously found the people to do it for them, but if they let mistakes slip through like the ones you mention they've been even cheaper then I thought.
Like you say, it can create strong brand loyalty, but in my opinion this mainly works for smaller communities. When a company has just received a pot of gold from Microsoft it just seems like they are being cheap to ask the members to translate.
With all the new languages rolled out they obviously found the people to do it for them, but if they let mistakes slip through like the ones you mention they've been even cheaper then I thought.
And I know about cheap, I'm Dutch!
Sleep Aid
· 1 year ago
Yeah, I think they can do better too. You would think for what the company is worth they could hire someone to do the translations.
Sleep Aid
· 1 year ago
Yeah, I think they can do better too. You would think for what the company is worth they could hire someone to do the translations.
Cassiano Travareli
· 1 year ago
"Facebook isn't an open source project with limited resources"
This phrase said everything! Many bugs are fixed by users when the system is an open source!
Cassiano Travareli
· 1 year ago
"Facebook isn't an open source project with limited resources"
This phrase said everything! Many bugs are fixed by users when the system is an open source!
Dennis Edell
· 1 year ago
There's not much worse then off-beat translations...to say nothing of completely wrong as in the case you pointed out.
Claudine hit the point with possible massive embarrassment, or worse.
Dennis Edell
· 1 year ago
There's not much worse then off-beat translations...to say nothing of completely wrong as in the case you pointed out.
Claudine hit the point with possible massive embarrassment, or worse.
Sorry Andy I must have had forgotten to close my link above. I meant only to link to my site about Polish language not to spam by making my whole comment a link. Your blog is high quality and did not mean to do that. PS you should blog more about your experience living in Poland an with the Polish language. I think there are many ex pats all over the world who have an interest in the internet experience connected with languages other than English.
Mark
· 1 year ago
Sorry Andy I must have had forgotten to close my link above. I meant only to link to my site about Polish language not to spam by making my whole comment a link. Your blog is high quality and did not mean to do that. PS you should blog more about your experience living in Poland an with the Polish language. I think there are many ex pats all over the world who have an interest in the internet experience connected with languages other than English.
Liza
· 1 year ago
I think computers and the internet has become overefficient -- I experience the same annoyance when my microsoft word automatically spells out a word for me -- when I was trying to write something entirely different. Facebook should wait for an opt-in from the user, so that translations would be wanted and accepted.
I think computers and the internet has become overefficient -- I experience the same annoyance when my microsoft word automatically spells out a word for me -- when I was trying to write something entirely different. Facebook should wait for an opt-in from the user, so that translations would be wanted and accepted.
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Like you say, it can create strong brand loyalty, but in my opinion this mainly works for smaller communities. When a company has just received a pot of gold from Microsoft it just seems like they are being cheap to ask the members to translate.
With all the new languages rolled out they obviously found the people to do it for them, but if they let mistakes slip through like the ones you mention they've been even cheaper then I thought.
And I know about cheap, I'm Dutch!
Like you say, it can create strong brand loyalty, but in my opinion this mainly works for smaller communities. When a company has just received a pot of gold from Microsoft it just seems like they are being cheap to ask the members to translate.
With all the new languages rolled out they obviously found the people to do it for them, but if they let mistakes slip through like the ones you mention they've been even cheaper then I thought.
And I know about cheap, I'm Dutch!
This phrase said everything! Many bugs are fixed by users when the system is an open source!
This phrase said everything! Many bugs are fixed by users when the system is an open source!
Claudine hit the point with possible massive embarrassment, or worse.
Claudine hit the point with possible massive embarrassment, or worse.
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