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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Web Programming and Design => Topic started by: tranglich on July 11, 2006, 08:38:00 pm

Title: Dictionary project
Post by: tranglich on July 11, 2006, 08:38:00 pm
Hello, I'm a friend of Loki, he told me I could find people to help me here so that's why I'm here.

I need people who speak (or rather write) fluently, or fairly well, at least two of the following languages : English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese (traditional), Korean, Russian, Italian, German.

You will be translating some sentences, for my personal non-official project, still at an experimental stage. If you want to take a look :
http://ho.vanhoang.free.fr/dico/sentencesdatabase.php

And since I'm not a programmer, if you have good computer language knowledge, you could help me out for some other things. Because there are few things I'd like to do but I'm not sure how to do them and I need someone to guide me =)

Thanks.

T.
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: Spellshaper on July 11, 2006, 10:10:00 pm
*Spellshaper volunteers for english-german

welcome, btw. ;)wink.gif
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: tranglich on July 11, 2006, 10:16:00 pm
Thanks ^__^

Yea, just one thing with German, it's the language that has the most translated sentences, because I got my German friend addicted to translating my sentences lol. I don't know why, but she's really into it. So you probably won't have much work. Although you can always check out the correctness of the sentences by reading for fun the few sentences that I have in the database... if you have nothing better to do ^^;
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: Spellshaper on July 12, 2006, 12:40:00 am
aww... ok ^^
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: Speler on July 12, 2006, 11:32:00 am
http://babelfish.altavista.com/ if you need  :lol:laugh.gif .

Also I speak a little spanish and could help with that as long as the scentences aren't to detailed.
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: Spellshaper on July 12, 2006, 11:51:00 am
hm, now I get an internal error 500 when I try to go to your site...
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: kalan_vod on July 12, 2006, 12:03:00 pm
Works fine now :Ptongue.gif
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: Spellshaper on July 12, 2006, 12:57:00 pm
ukay
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 12, 2006, 01:00:00 pm
Imo i wouldnt suggest using babelfish to translate sentence to something else than english because it look horrible most of the time

Welcome here btw is there lot of french sentence to translate because I may not have enough time if there is a lot but if there is a few I could try to give you an hand for english>french or vice versa because I am french canadian ^^
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: Speler on July 12, 2006, 01:12:00 pm
Xlibman, I didn't mean for use on entire scentences, I meant if the people needed help translating a few words that is a nice tool to have.
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 12, 2006, 01:31:00 pm
oh lol yeah that way it is good
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: tenniskid493 on July 12, 2006, 03:03:00 pm
Fluent in Spanish and English...would love to help.
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: josephmarin on July 16, 2006, 09:06:00 pm
Hey trang =) I'll try to put in a bit of russian or something ^_^
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: tranglich on July 17, 2006, 01:45:00 am
Oh wow, I didn't expect so many replies...Sorry for responding so late, I was in Germany =P And then when I came back I started working on how to have statitcs about the contributions the translation of my database (which I just finished setting up).

Okay... I'm gonna PM everyone who answered.

In case you didn't notice, my server is pretty slow sometimes. If you notice any bug, let me know.
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: tenniskid493 on July 22, 2006, 01:16:00 am
Just to let you know...alot of the sentences that you have on the site don't have a very literal translation of so if you are trying to use these sentences to try to teach vocabulary, people might get very confused.
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 22, 2006, 01:26:00 am
its kinda hard to translate litterally, sometimes it makes no sense anymore >.<
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: Spellshaper on July 22, 2006, 01:39:00 am
Yeah, like proverbs. Still I translasted one according to the meaning. :lol:laugh.gif
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: Spellshaper on August 07, 2006, 11:19:00 am
damn. What happened? I can't access the site anymore :(sad.gif
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: kalan_vod on August 07, 2006, 12:49:00 pm
I still can.
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: bfr on August 07, 2006, 12:51:00 pm
I still can access it too.
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: Spellshaper on August 07, 2006, 01:30:00 pm
o.oblink.gif ...must have been down for some hours...
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: kalan_vod on August 07, 2006, 03:44:00 pm
So it works for you now?
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: tranglich on August 07, 2006, 04:01:00 pm
It should work... but yea, when the server's down, just come back another day. Sorry for the frustration.

As for the translations, as I pointed out, it's pretty hard to translate. I don't want litteral translations though. You should always translate the way you feel is the best way to express it even if the words don't really fit. It should always make sense.

If there's a pun, and you can't find a way to translate while keeping the meaning, then don't translate.

And if you aren't sure about the meaning of a sentence, then just send me a mail or IM me on MSN.
Title: Dictionary project
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 08, 2006, 11:39:00 am
ugh yeah I got lot of trouble with some sentences, I got one tho but the others are kinda hard for me >.<