wow the front-end makes a separate ajax call for each language - efficient!
You always have the option to not be sarcastic about it, and instead point out where efficiencies could be made. Being nice doesn't cost anything.
Show HN: Longest Translation – Handy utility for multi language designs
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#12I've tried "once upon a time there was a king" (the first common words in a lot of fairy tales), which in Romanian should have been translated in five words - "a fost odată un împărat". This tool gives me "cu mult timp în urmă a Trăit-o a fost regele" - double of that amount (and I stop before getting into comments about the translated content itself)!
Thanks userulluipeste! It's great to get feedback, seems Yandex API isn't the best, very interested if there's any others people have had a good experience with?
Re: Show HN: Longest Translation – Handy utility for multi language designs
#13I've tried "once upon a time there was a king" (the first common words in a lot of fairy tales), which in Romanian should have been translated in five words - "a fost odată un împărat". This tool gives me "cu mult timp în urmă a Trăit-o a fost regele" - double of that amount (and I stop before getting into comments about the translated content itself)!
Come on, you can hardly fault an automated language tool for not translating something idiomatically. Try your comment, and see how it does.
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#14wow the front-end makes a separate ajax call for each language - efficient!
It's almost as though efficiency isn't the main priority in a toy app that returns automated translations sorted by length.
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#15Can you add an option to select the input language? For example if I submit a Japanese phrase, all the languages give identical results, which is the phrase itself.
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#16Very nice but your missing the worst offender... Greenlandic :)
Checkout the most translated website in the world to see some of these languages in action http://jw.org - Here is Greenlandic http://www.jw.org/kl/
Re: Show HN: Longest Translation – Handy utility for multi language designs
#17Can you add an option to select the input language? For example if I submit a Japanese phrase, all the languages give identical results, which is the phrase itself.
Yep, on the feature list, currently it's limited to en -> Other only. Also looking at selecting the target languages so you only see the languages you want.
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#18Very nice but your missing the worst offender... Greenlandic :) Checkout the most translated website in the world to see some of these languages in action http://jw.org - Here is Greenlandic http://www.jw.org/kl/
Wow! Greenlandic looks awesome! Never had the pleasure of supporting greenland yet. Limited by API support currently...
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#19Well done, this is actually well executed and quite useful to quickly check translations for menus, dialog boxes and so on
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#20As a quick explanation. Very simple utility for quickly seeing what is the longest translation (by number of characters) for a specific word/phrase. Plan to keep this online until I hit my API call limit then will post the source over the weekend! Enjoy!
You might want to look into actual horizontal space. Visually the Japanese and Chinese translations takes a lot more space than the character count would have you believe.