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[Roy Jamison <xteejyx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think the point was not to have machine translated garble, as it's not
100% foolproof and sometimes technical things can be erroneous. :)
Not a bad idea if we can tag it with something like
"tr-needs-verification-de" or whatever language it is and clean it up
afterwards, whether that be a native speaker or English.

On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 05:24 -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 11:18 +0100, Roy Jamison wrote:
> > Actually, I've just had a thought and it incorporates both ideas.
> > There is no reason why we couldn't do both, i.e. if someone *only*
> > speaks English, there is no reason why they couldn't translate it
> > themselves. Use Google translate or Babelfish or whatever, and translate
> > the "broken English" output from that into something legible.
> > 
> > Then everyone can do a bit and play their part. Obviously obscure
> > languages with <100 Ubuntu users would need to be done manually by a
> > human.
> > 
> > Just an idea :)
> 
> Or... automatically: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage recently I
> had the chance to work with a company that was using that exact API to
> do on the fly translations of their entire website.  Mixing Google Ajax
> API with JQuery you get some pretty powerful results.
> 

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