Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 17:41:17 11/08/01
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On November 08, 2001 at 19:13:53, Dann Corbit wrote: >For the most part, I think that everyone pretty much agrees that English is >working well as an "Esperanto that acutally works." > >The problem comes along when someone does not understand English at all, or so >poorly that they feel unable to communicate. Now, in a case like this, we have >several options. We could use a translation service, and transfer from our >Native language to English. The problem with that approach is shown in this >earlier post that I made: >http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?196383 > >If you read that, you will find that some of the translators were acceptable >(even getting the idioms right) and others commically horrible. If you don't >know English very well, and you translate into English, you might get something >laughably awful. In such a case, we would be much better off trying a >translator ourselves, since we can usually tell when the translation is correct >by reading its guess (but not always, of course). > >I suggest that the following approach be used for posting here: >1. If you are comfortable in English, then use that language. >2. If you have difficulty with English, then we could have a thing like the >[MOD] to mark the message as different. Maybe a [TRANSLATE] request could be >added to the top. Then, if someone decides to be helpful, we can get a >translation into English. > >I imagine what it would be like if I had to post in French or Turkish. I have >some familiarity with both of those langauges (having taken a year of French >both in high school and college, and having lived in Turkey for 2 years). But >if I had to converse in those languages it would be very, very difficult for me. > I could probably do it, but it would really curtail my communication. If I had >to post in German or Finnish (where I only know a few vocabulary terms and swear >words) it would be pretty hopeless. > >So, I think we should be encouraging, even of those who are not comfortable in >English. And if someone puts a [TRANSLATE] on the front of a subject, maybe we >can give it a go if we happen to know the original language of the post. I think that is a very good idea, this also offers the poster a chance to get aquainted with the english language. Regards Jonas
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