Wednesday, December 10, 2003

Have you tried any of the website language translation service such as Babel Fish from Alta Vista? If you are fluent in one of the languages in their list you know the accuracy is not very good. I would say it's about 70-80%. You can even get some good laugh out of it. I know, because I am pretty fluent in Chinese. I took out the phase "business leasing is available" in my online PC store advertisement, because when the sentence is translated into Chinese, it literally means "corporate lies can be used". It was very funny to me at first, but then I realized how seriously misleading it can be. Other mis-translations are just plain funny to read and I don't want to elaborate too much on it. Anyway, the translation tool is still pretty cool and useful, at least visitors who speak other languages can roughly figure out what the website is about. If you need more accurate language translation service, you should try worldlingo.com. They provide a full list of language translation service, even professional human translation is available. It is just one of the useful resources you can find on the Marketing tools page. Click Here to visit that page now.

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