Category archives for “language”

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They hate translation, translation hates them

20 May 03

If you hate translations, don’t read them. Or shut up.

InterC@pping!

3 Mar 03

InterCapping = bad.

monotonous tooth-activating cream

31 Jul 02

Engrish blog

Language-recognition algorithm

30 Apr 02

This is fascinating. Italian researchers have found a way to identify the source language of a text just based on how that text has been treated by a compression algorithm. It gets better:
The scientists performed a further test of their technique by analyzing a single text that has been translated into many different languages — [...]

Lost in Translation — round-robin MT

21 Apr 02

Lost in Translation “What happens when an English phrase is translated (by computer) back and forth between 5 different languages?” This website answers that burning question. What fun!

Rikai.com

1 Mar 02

If you have an interest in the Japanese language, Rikai.com is a startling, fascinating website. It takes other websites (or whatever plain text you feed it) and displays them with a translation layer, so that when you point at a word in Japanese, the translation appears.
Unfortunately it’s a bit buggy, and it seems to work [...]

Translatorese tidbit

26 Feb 02

This Audi press release contains a fun mistranslation: Bearing in mind its performance figures and ample interior space, with room for five occupants, this is an unbeatably low value.
Usually these press releases are pretty good, the typically German problem of logorrhea and marketing claptrap notwithstanding.

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