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[Jordon Bedwell <jordon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.