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10/21/2001 Archived Entry: "21-October-2001 -- Veblog"

Veblog -- This site provides articles and other resources for making internet projects successful. More importantly, the site is focused on the needs of users, and that is why I pointed to it. Also, it is entirely in French. I like pointing to international resources. Enjoy!

Replies: 4 comments

John, have you thought of adding a translation link for those of us that haven't done french since the age of 14?
It took about 20 seconds on google to get this:
(Long) link to a translated google page of the article

Posted by Alastair Campbell @ 10/22/2001 05:26 AM EST

My experience of google translations is that they are at least perfectible, and often ridiculous.

e.g :"les sites des communes françaises" is translated into "common frenchwomen websites" (!!!) instead of "french cities websites" (correct). The feminists organisations could suit google for that !

so if you put links to google translator, you might damage user experience, except if you put a clear disclaimer about quality of translations...

regards,

Posted by Vincent Bénard @ 10/22/2001 10:42 AM EST

I have to admit, the results are far from perfect. Perhaps it's just me, but just being able to make any sense out of a foreign language at the click of a button is an amazing thing.

I wonder if users would blame the site or the translation? I would assume that people writing in their native language are going to be correct, and the translator is a bit dodgy.

Either way, even if it isn't perfect, it makes it possible. Similar argument to accessability isn't it?

Posted by Alastair Campbell @ 10/23/2001 07:00 AM EST

Hey Vince... actually, the most accurate english equivalent of the french word "commune" is probably "county" :).

Posted by Francis Wu @ 10/24/2001 09:27 AM EST

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