http://www.adammessinger.com/2007/01/04/non-sucky-translation Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:41:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://www.adammessinger.com/2007/01/04/non-sucky-translation#comment-42603 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:44:18 +0000 http://www.adammessinger.com/2007/01/04/non-sucky-translation#comment-42603 I agree with the IM translator, i used it for English-Portuguese and Poruguese-English and the back translation tool of IM is very helpful. i don't speak Portuese myself, but with my knowledge of French with a little bit of fantasy those languages are related and my very poor Portuguese, it makes quite sense it's not perfect, but Babelfish and Google indeed suck I agree with the IM translator, i used it for English-Portuguese and Poruguese-English and the back translation tool of IM is very helpful. i don’t speak Portuese myself, but with my knowledge of French with a little bit of fantasy those languages are related and my very poor Portuguese, it makes quite sense it’s not perfect, but Babelfish and Google indeed suck

]]> http://www.adammessinger.com/2007/01/04/non-sucky-translation#comment-33440 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:25:55 +0000 http://www.adammessinger.com/2007/01/04/non-sucky-translation#comment-33440 True enough, Lars. It may be my innately low expectations for machine translation that led me to elevate Im Translator from "sucks" to "passable" in my personal classification system. :-) True enough, Lars. It may be my innately low expectations for machine translation that led me to elevate Im Translator from “sucks” to “passable” in my personal classification system.

]]> http://www.adammessinger.com/2007/01/04/non-sucky-translation#comment-33379 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:15:28 +0000 http://www.adammessinger.com/2007/01/04/non-sucky-translation#comment-33379 "online translation that sucks less" would be more accurate. It still has many obvious flaws, but it does avoid some of the stranger ones of previous translators. “online translation that sucks less” would be more accurate. It still has many obvious flaws, but it does avoid some of the stranger ones of previous translators.

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