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[nycphp-talk] automatic translation

Chris Shiflett shiflett at php.net
Thu Apr 1 14:08:51 EST 2004


--- Phillip Powell <phillip.powell at adnet-sys.com> wrote:
> So most PHP-based translators now do human-level translation? Cool!

Your logic is flawed:

1. "online translators" == "PHP-based translators"

There's more to the Web than PHP.

2. "human-level translation" == everything that's not "word-for-word
translation"

I think it's safe to assume that there are many different approaches, and
"word-for-word translation" is probably the most flawed. This is why you
are wrong to suggest that most online translators use this approach.

Based on your assumption, I bet you were curious to know why sites like
Google only offered translation to/from only a few languages. :-)

Chris

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