The Wampus Cat » internet http://www.wampuscat.org/wordpress Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:13:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.wampuscat.org/wordpress/2009/05/14/google-translate/ http://www.wampuscat.org/wordpress/2009/05/14/google-translate/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 05:49:34 +0000 The Wampus Cat http://tumblr.wampuscat.org/post/107548877

To follow up a bit, Google Translate can’t guess that basic Zulu phrases are Zulu, nor can it guess that Xhosa phrases are Xhosa (it’s been saying they are Portuguese or German, but of course, not translating them). Firefox isn’t offered in any South African languages besides English and Afrikaans. Facebook (as seen above) isn’t either. Now, I’m not complaining, just thinking out loud. I don’t speak Afrikaans, no less isiZulu or isiXhosa, so I’m in no place to, for example, translate Firefox…

[Images from Wikipedia and Facebook]

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It’s funny that Google Translate knows some Afrikaans. (Here you can download Firefox in Afrikaans and here is Facebook in Afrikaans. Gmail isn’t available in Afrikaans, and if it were, I wouldn’t use it. New Gmail features get rolled out to “English (US)” first, and who knows about Labs support.)

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