RE: [Leica] FOM 2 phase 2

[Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>]

The vodka is acceptable, but the meat is rotten :-)

Actually, I was surprised that the translation you got was that good.  I
tried running Erwin's German M3 page through Altavista a couple of years
ago, and got back a real head-scratcher.  At least here the sense of the
message is pretty well intact.  But this is one area where synapses have it
all over transistors.

Paul

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Johnny Deadman [mailto:john@pinkheadedbug.com]
>Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 1:15 PM
>To: LUG
>Subject: Re: [Leica] FOM 2 phase 2
>
>
>on 16/10/00 12:52 pm, Ken Iisaka at ken@iisaka.org wrote:
>
>> No need to host pages in other languages in other sites.  
>The server doesn't
>> care what language is contained in the files (English, 
>Japanese, polite,
>> profane...)  If you're using some tools to create the pages, 
>you can give an
>> English page to a translator, and translate just the text.  Put the
>> translated file in the server, and voila, you have a 
>multilingual site.
>
>Hi Ken
>
>The only flaw in your cunning plan is what happens when the text is
>translated. Here's your post above, translated English --> Spanish
>-->English by Altavista... hmmm...
>
>
>> No necessity to receive the paginations in other languages 
>in other sites. The
>> server does not take care of what language is contained in 
>the files (English,
>> Japanese, courteous, it profanes...) If you are using some 
>tools to create the
>> paginations, you can give an English pagination to a translator, and
>> translates as soon as the text. Put the file translated in 
>the server, and
>> voila, you have a multilingual site. English page to to 
>translator, and
>> translate just the text. Put the translated cases out in the 
>server, and
>> voila, you have to multilingual site.
>> 
>> 
>-- 
>Johnny Deadman
>
>http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
>
>