Comments on: Why I Love Automatic Translation

By: Janet Hironaka

Janet Hironaka — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:35:55 +0000

I enjoyed your presentation at Literary Women: Long Beach Festival of Authors on March 6.

May I have the name of the brain researcher/neuroscientist you quoted on the connections among narration, storytelling, learning, and sense-making?

By: Harriet Golding

Harriet Golding — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:07:22 +0000

Saw you today at Lit. Women. You were, by far, the best speaker. You came across as so REAL, in contrast to the previous slick presentation. You must be a great friend to know. I have just sent for 2 of your books.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:43:44 +0000

This reminds me of a chat I had with a co-worker. I teach Gr. 2 french immersion. I wrote a two page test filled with grammatical errors. My co-worker said, “wow, did you read this when you were finished. It’s filled with mistakes.”

I said “no,” and tried to pass it off. But in reality I had used Babelfish to translate the whole test from English to French. No really, I can speak french… kind of.

By: Tony D

Tony D — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:24:01 +0000

I dunno, I kind of liked the Amazon.fr version. It all goes especially good with a 7-1 Martini (Gin, of course; swished anyway you like).
td

By: Tom Hartley

Tom Hartley — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 05:21:00 +0000

“…the catastrophe is never very far… she has more and more evil to remain incognito.”

Karla Rove

By: justkristin

justkristin — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 00:48:43 +0000

the tool for translation of the google is not well better. The video holy of Graal of the python of Monty has a funny scene which was translated into Japanese and then again subtitled in English with the similar results. Holy Graal becomes the holy cup of saké.

[as rendered by said google translation tool from French to English.]