Can't read German?

Crosis · Post by **Crosis** » Sat Jan 04, 2003 11:49 pm

Have you ever stumbled upon a post and wondered what they were saying because they spoke german? Here is a link to a site where you can translate what they are saying, just copy the address and place it in "Translate a webpage". You can then browse the forum and see it all in english. Its cool i recomend you check it out.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Roke · Post by **Roke** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 2:53 am

I would not reccomend using this for posting messages in another language though, be it German or English as teh grammer is terrible.

Korwin · Post by **Korwin** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 6:39 pm

You might try translating something back and forth, I translated "I hope this translation comes out good, but it will probably be jumbled." back and forth from english to german about 3 times and it came out "I hope this translation come from the good, but it is jumbled. " You could also try translating some of the german posts on the boards, it doesn't work so well.

Crosis · Post by **Crosis** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 7:35 pm

I agree it's not very accurate but you still can get an idea of what is being said.

Galim · Post by **Galim** » Mon Jan 06, 2003 7:02 am

uuh, believe me, babel-fish have a terrible grammar ^^. he translate blacksmith into Schmied but not Schmied into blacksmith ^^ and so on. perhaps you can ask some friend who can speak german and english, this friend could translate the interesting postings for you ^^.

Adano Eles · Post by **Adano Eles** » Mon Jan 06, 2003 8:55 am

Google's translation tools seem to be fairly good. I tried translating the sentence "The main problem is, that those translation tool cannnot translate different grammar correctly." a few times, and besides the fact that it was not able to translate "main problem" into German and back into English the sentence remained readable.

Fooser · Post by **Fooser** » Mon Jan 06, 2003 10:55 pm

Freetranslation.com does a lot of different language to language translations, and another random thing: why are there topics in english and the post is in German? I dont understand

Crosis · Post by **Crosis** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 12:20 am

I went to freetanslation.com and translated "i hope this translation works good" and it came out "I hope that this translation works well". Then I went back to bablefish and tried the same sentence and it came out "I hope these the good translation work". Seems like freetranslation.com works better.

Rackere Diplomatre · Post by **Rackere Diplomatre** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 12:22 am

use http://itranslator.bowneglobal.com----VERY Good

Crosis · Post by **Crosis** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 12:32 am

Ok i tried http://itranslator.bowneglobal.com and here are my results:

English to German-I hope this translation works better than the others.

German to English-I hope that this translation works better than the others.

Seems this site is very accurate.

Roke · Post by **Roke** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 2:15 am

Thank you everyone for finding me a good translater!

Bith · Post by **Bith** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 11:15 am

the problem i had with this translater is when i go hi hello it went hi the hi for some reason it added a word

treason · Post by **treason** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 12:32 pm

aye... all of those translating systems are somewhat inaccurate..
as i am a absolut google fan (since its the best search engine) i would stick with it..

nevertheless: i think we germans should try to keep our post english, otherwise we will have a crowing seperation of different communities.. although most of us might have problems to express themselves in a accurat way in english.. espacially in rp-cases.

Bror · Post by **Bror** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 5:53 pm

Be careful using any computer translator. We had cases here where people got very angry at each other, because a normal (non offensive) posting of one player has been translated via computer and resulted into a text, that was so hard to read, that it could be interpreted as something very offensive.

Denkan · Post by **Denkan** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 6:57 pm

I use freetranslation.com, but I review the text with my average english skill, before I post it.