Comments on: Better multilingual support http://www.marcilan.com/2009/12/better-multilingual-support/ Maxillofacial Radiology Cone Beam CT Interactive Learning And Navigation Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:29:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Wisam Al-Rawi http://www.marcilan.com/2009/12/better-multilingual-support/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Wisam Al-Rawi Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:04:30 +0000 http://www.marcilan.com/2009/12/better-multilingual-support/#comment-90 Although English is not my native language. I feel that it should become the global language; however, there are billions of people out there who speak so many different languages and not so many can afford to learn English even if they want to. Machine translation can ease the transition but it is still not suitable for technical nor medical translation Although English is not my native language. I feel that it should become the global language; however, there are billions of people out there who speak so many different languages and not so many can afford to learn English even if they want to. Machine translation can ease the transition but it is still not suitable for technical nor medical translation

]]> By: Murry Shohat http://www.marcilan.com/2009/12/better-multilingual-support/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Murry Shohat Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:02:44 +0000 http://www.marcilan.com/2009/12/better-multilingual-support/#comment-89 Translation is extremely important, as demonstrated by Google at its Knol 'pedia. Machine translation (eg., www.translate.google.com) must have a human proofreader. Until the world adopts and implements a global language. An interesting article proposing English as the most likely global language can be found at http://knol.google.com/k/global-english-a-paradigm-shift Technical content is a special challenge. New question: should translators be volunteers or paid? Translation is extremely important, as demonstrated by Google at its Knol ‘pedia. Machine translation (eg., http://www.translate.google.com) must have a human proofreader. Until the world adopts and implements a global language.

An interesting article proposing English as the most likely global language can be found at
http://knol.google.com/k/global-english-a-paradigm-shift

Technical content is a special challenge. New question: should translators be volunteers or paid?

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