Edited machine translation wins award Thread poster: Margaret Schroeder
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Broward County in Florida won an achievement award from the National Association of Counties for its trilingual website. Here are the French and Spanish versions. In the announcement of the award, we can read: \"The tran... See more Broward County in Florida won an achievement award from the National Association of Counties for its trilingual website. Here are the French and Spanish versions. In the announcement of the award, we can read: \"The translations were performed utilizing translation software and then reviewed by several sources, such as: county employees, teachers, bilingual staff, etc., to ensure a quality product. [...] Out [sic] statistical data indicates that the combined Spanish and French versions now have more page views than the English version.\" ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Is that an award wining translation? | Aug 20, 2002 |
Visit:
English version homepage:
http://www.co.broward.fl.us/agriculture/english/general/hurricane.htm
Spanish version homepage:
http://www.co.broward.fl.us/agriculture/spanish/general/hurricane.htm
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The following text comes from the Spanish main page.
TRADUZCA LA PAGINA ACTUAL
EL INGLÉS
EL FRANCÉS
CHASQUEE SU BOTON DE ESPALDA PARA VOLVER A ESTA PAGINA
LA DENEGACION: El software del traductor se utilizó para la conversión de este sitio de Web, y aunque revisáramos la conversión para la certeza, los errores gramaticales secundarios pueden ocurrir. Sus comentarios se apreciarían. Por favor email: [email protected]
Food and Water
Children\'s Concerns
Landscape Preparations
Caring for Hurricane Damaged Home Landscape Plants
El huracán Preparedness para Edificios de tipo Propaganda
Los Edificios de la Granja que protegen de la Tempestad Enrollan
Cómo Aminorar el Daño de Viento en el Jardín del sur de la Florida
La Recuperación de Turf que promueve después de Huracánes
Difunda las Consideraciones de huracán para la Guardería Infantil Comercial
Comenzar las Cosechas Nuevas en Invernaderos Inundados/Shadehouses
Los Escombros que limpian de la Tierra
Cuidar de Escombros Inundados de Céspedes
Evaluar y Arboles de Paisaje que Tratan que Sigue un Huracán
Cuidar de Palmas Dañadas de Huracán
Los Arbustos Dañados de la Inundación que salvan y Ornamentals
La Sombra dañada, Ornamental, y Arboles de Fruta
Plante Arboles Detenidamente después de un Huracán
Salvar Desarraigó Parcialmente Arboles
La cadena Vio la Seguridad
El comején Actualiza - El resorte y el Verano
El agua La conservación En Las guarderías infantiles
En El Registro Animal Grande De la Línea
Dueños Del Caballo: Usted está preparado para la estación del huracán?
Kit Equino De la Evacuación Del Ganado
Kit De Primeros auxilios De Equine/Livestock
El Control de la peste
La gerencia estructural, del ser humano y del animal doméstico del insecto del parásito es una preocupación importante, y una industria enorme en el condado de Broward. Los parásitos tienen gusto de termitas, carpintero y otras hormigas, insectos venenosos, parásitos del insecto del ser humano y del animal doméstico, despensa e insectos de la tela, y una variedad de otros insectos del fastidio puede toda afectar nuestras vidas sobre una base periódica.
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Let me share a couple of examples from this \"award-winning\" site for those not lucky enough to include French or Spanish in their languages.
In an article on the importance of having your horse vaccinated for rabies in the spring, the sentence \"Now is the time for spring shots\" made it into Spanish as \"Ahora sea el tiempo para disparos de resorte.\"
The word used here for \"shots\" means shots from a gun, and the word used for \"spring\" means some... See more Let me share a couple of examples from this \"award-winning\" site for those not lucky enough to include French or Spanish in their languages.
In an article on the importance of having your horse vaccinated for rabies in the spring, the sentence \"Now is the time for spring shots\" made it into Spanish as \"Ahora sea el tiempo para disparos de resorte.\"
The word used here for \"shots\" means shots from a gun, and the word used for \"spring\" means something springy or elastic, such as a coiled wire spring or an elastic band.
\"Back button\", as in click on to go back, is \"the button on your back\" in Spanish, and \"backside button\" in French!
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| | | | | ¡No manera! (That is "no way for ya) | Aug 20, 2002 |
Jeez on a Pony! Who gives these awards???
The most amazing thing, is that \"la denegación\" (the Disclaimer, I guess) claims that the text is revised (or \"may be revised,\" who knows what they mean?) for accuracy, but \"secondary\" errors may occur  Revised by whom? By the same guy who gave this an award?
And they add that \"my comments would be appreciated,\" and they give their email. Well, if they ... See more Jeez on a Pony! Who gives these awards???
The most amazing thing, is that \"la denegación\" (the Disclaimer, I guess) claims that the text is revised (or \"may be revised,\" who knows what they mean?) for accuracy, but \"secondary\" errors may occur Revised by whom? By the same guy who gave this an award?
And they add that \"my comments would be appreciated,\" and they give their email. Well, if they really would appreciate my comments... they are going to get them, all right!
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José Luis Villanueva-Senchuk (X) 
Argentina
Local time: 22:46
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| Gonna cry...or should I go out and drink?!?!? | Aug 20, 2002 |
Hola,
I can see myself inside the booth and a mechanical cold voice saying \"Please, beep! get the %%=?%&? out. I am the interpreting replacement for you...beep! beep!\"
Cheers,
JL
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Local time: 02:46
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| Not as long as there are some sane clients around :-) | Aug 20, 2002 |
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On 2002-08-20 17:22, Pepelu wrote:
I can see myself inside the booth and a mechanical cold voice saying \"Please, beep! get the %%=?%&? out. I am the interpreting replacement for you...beep! beep!\"
Was it a rude word you edited out (where the nice punctuation marks now appear)?  )
Seriously, I don\'t think we need to w... See more Quote:
On 2002-08-20 17:22, Pepelu wrote:
I can see myself inside the booth and a mechanical cold voice saying \"Please, beep! get the %%=?%&? out. I am the interpreting replacement for you...beep! beep!\"
Was it a rude word you edited out (where the nice punctuation marks now appear)? )
Seriously, I don\'t think we need to worry too much.
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One more comment, and then I really should get back to work. I started this thread with the title \"Machine translation wins award\", but a moderator added the word \"Edited\".
Well, I don\'t know if taking the editing into consideration makes it better or worse! True, many of the howlers on this site are clearly a result of machine translation.
But the texts were then reviewed by \"several sources, such as: county employees, teachers, bilingual staff,... See more One more comment, and then I really should get back to work. I started this thread with the title \"Machine translation wins award\", but a moderator added the word \"Edited\".
Well, I don\'t know if taking the editing into consideration makes it better or worse! True, many of the howlers on this site are clearly a result of machine translation.
But the texts were then reviewed by \"several sources, such as: county employees, teachers, bilingual staff, etc., to ensure a quality product\". So this also says something about depending on non-translators for quality assurance in a translation. Even a non-speaker could have identified some of the errors just by cross-checking in a set of dictionaries! It boggles my mind. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Karin Adamczyk (X)
Canada
Local time: 21:46
French to English
| I don't understand | Aug 20, 2002 |
It sounds like people are surprised at the quality of the text.
It seems to me we should be happy with such awards as they clearly show that machine translation and revisions by non-professionals prove the point that there is no substitute for a professional translator. We really don\'t need to spend time analyzing these things -- lets just enjoy the fact that machine translation (and revision by non-professionals) speaks for itself.
Or, am I missing so... See more It sounds like people are surprised at the quality of the text.
It seems to me we should be happy with such awards as they clearly show that machine translation and revisions by non-professionals prove the point that there is no substitute for a professional translator. We really don\'t need to spend time analyzing these things -- lets just enjoy the fact that machine translation (and revision by non-professionals) speaks for itself.
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Parrot
Spain
Local time: 03:46
Spanish to English
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| no MANERA!!! | Aug 21, 2002 |
| | | | Mats Wiman
Sweden
Local time: 03:46
Member (2000)
German to Swedish
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In memoriam
for whom?
It\'s evident: They are indirectly awarding our profession!
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