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Re: Changing the language of gnus menu entries
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Joost Kremers |
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Re: Changing the language of gnus menu entries |
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25 Sep 2013 21:15:04 GMT |
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Drew Adams wrote:
> FWIW, Google translates node (emacs) `Keys' to what is below, in German.
> (And it provides a spoken reading of the result.)
Well, the translation sucks. :-) Word order is so messed up that it's
often difficult to make heads or tails of a sentence...
Such a translation would probably scare off more people than having no
translation at all.
> IOW, does such automatic translation get us something at least a little bit
> useful or not?
>
> I don't understand German, so I cannot tell, here. I would say that the
> translation to
> French is usable, however. It is not great, but it can be helpful, IMHO.
That's not entirely surprising, because French word order is much closer
to English (both are subject-verb-object), while German word order is
quite different and more complex (i.e., more difficult to get right
without human intervention).
> Such automatic output could perhaps also be used as a starting point, to be
> improved by
> human translation.
Actually, I'm not sure what would be more work: correcting a Google
translation or starting from scratch. I'm pretty sure, though, that the
latter is more satisfying and less frustrating.
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- Re: Changing the language of gnus menu entries, (continued)
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