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Re: Offer HN: We'll translate your iOS application to Japanese for free

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Would you be willing to translate an open-source web-app / chrome extension? I've currently autotranslated the stuff through google translate but I can imagine that's hilariously wrong: https://github.com/SchizoDuckie/DuckieTV/blob/angular/_local... Even if you won't : kudo's for posting this offer to hn!

Serious question: Why would you do such a thing?

I'm asking because I have this feeling it has become more and more common during the last years. Just because I sent a header that I can read a certain language, a lot of websites send me completely unreadable autotranslations.

There is nothing hilarous about it. If it's not a proper translation, if it's not something a native speaker would understand, then why send it at all?

Why butcher a beautiful language, put the pieces back together with random dung and then throw the resulting muck in the face of your users?

Are you that afraid that someone from France, Finland or the Faroe Islands would stumble upon your site, in the vast sea of the English speaking Internet, and then never come back just because it's not translated to their mother tongue?

Truly sorry for the rant. It was something built up. I do wonder about the prevalence of autotranslations however.

Re: Offer HN: We'll translate your iOS application to Japanese for free

#22
The good thing about this: Cultural and language barriers create opportunities. This is a very powerful factor and there are huge opportunities for arbitrage.

The big unknown in this: For such arbitrage to work, the key is to demonstrate there is good understanding of the language, culture, and market on both sides, and that there is a mature process for delivering a quality product. I can't think off the top of my head how such things can be demonstrated to developers who don't already understand the language, culture, and market on both sides.

Re: Offer HN: We'll translate your iOS application to Japanese for free

#23
Hi, I've got an iOS app that allows car enthusiasts to measure their car performances :https://itunes.apple.com/app/perfexpert/id549390700?mt=8 I would be interested for the translation in Japanese. I can send you a promo code to download the app for free, so you can see the amount of text to translate. Thanks Claude Joseph-Angélique Founder at PerfExpert

Re: Offer HN: We'll translate your iOS application to Japanese for free

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post #21

Would you be willing to translate an open-source web-app / chrome extension? I've currently autotranslated the stuff through google translate but I can imagine that's hilariously wrong: https://github.com/SchizoDuckie/DuckieTV/blob/angular/_local... Even if you won't : kudo's for posting this offer to hn!

Serious question: Why would you do such a thing? I'm asking because I have this feeling it has become more and more common during the last years. Just because I sent a header that I can read a certain language, a lot of websites send me completely unreadable autotranslations. There is nothing hilarous about it. If it's not a proper translation, if it's not something a native speaker would understand, then why send it…

Completely agree, especially since Chrome now offers to translate web-pages in other languages when the user opens them. It's far better to leave the decision to use machine-translation to the end user.
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