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SLReport.net breaks the Language Barrier in Second Life

Written by Cash Yiyuan

Thursday, 05 June 2008

SLReport.net has added a language translation tool to the website
Babel Fish by Yahoo! will translate the site into the following languages:

Chinese - simplified

Chinese - Traditional

Dutch

French

German

Greek

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Portuguese

Russian

Spanish

You will find the Babel Fish just below the Blog Menu on the right hand of the page.

Regards,

Cash Yiyuan

CEO - SLR

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Yanik Lytton

|2008-06-06 06:51:14

I take your point Cash, I don't speak them all. I translated your post to
french, which is my native tongue, and it was plain horrible. Sportsbet tried
the German translation and had a good laugh. I can easily find someone Spanish
to try it out. Tell me, which language does translate well with it?

Yes Sports,
it's free. But this is a news site. Choice of words when writing news is very
important. This tool can make it look like it is on a totaly different
topic.

Post the babble translator link on the page, fine. But please do not
advertise it as a service. It does you no good.

Peter Stindberg

|2008-06-06 00:14:03

... which does not tell anything about their quality or significance.

There
used to be 3 large and visible translation companies in SL. After my agency -
Babel Translations - took over 2nd Tongue Translations, there's only 2 big and
prominent ones. Varballis is not among them. From my RL job I am used to watch
competition closely, and they never ever appeared on my radar before.

Cash Yiyuan

|SAdministrator |2008-06-06 00:04:50

Peter, Verballis is listed as a company on SL Capital Exchange.

Peter Stindberg - Verballis?

|2008-06-05 23:22:42

Well, I run a successful (probably the top successful) translation agency in SL
for a year now. Verballis has never appeared on my radar as a competitor, their
presence in-world is almost inexistant, the website info I could find
rudimentary at best.

Strange I get it recommended twice today. As a potential
client I would not even find them...

Sportsbets

|2008-06-05 23:16:11

Yanik, worst thing SLR could have done? Why?? I think it´s free of charge, why
not use it then ^^

Cash Yiyuan

|SAdministrator |2008-06-05 16:52:10

Thanks for the negative comments. Noted.

We have tried Verballis in the past,
the cost was not the issue. This issue was quality.

Yanik do you speak 12
languages - if not how can you say that all the translations are wrong?

Sportsbets

|2008-06-05 13:03:44

I`m laughing my a$$ of when i read it on german.
Typical babelfish. you know
what "babel" in german means? talking shit!

Ok better than nothing on
the webiste, for translate single words it´s ok when you know the foreign
language little bit, but traslate the whole site makes often no sense.

If you
want a professional translation get in touch with Verballis (slcapex).
They have
a new CEO, maybe he can offer better traslations than Sully did here.
But you
offer a lot of news, so it´s going to be expensive and timetaking translate it
in different languages.

Yanik Lytton

|2008-06-05 09:42:44

This is the worst thing you could have done. I'm sure you don't speak any of
those languages, as you would see how bad it is.

Cash Yiyuan

|SAdministrator |2008-06-05 07:06:55

Thanks for the info Peter, we offer this to our readers as it is a better option
than not offering it.

Peter Stindberg - Oh my...

|2008-06-05 06:44:22

Online machine translation will deliver quite funny results. I'm not sure it's
the right for you. Let me drop you the notecard with my translation service
offerings in world. Prices start at 3L/word.

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