Re: Automatic translation tool for web pages

Jon,

I would say that the difference between Mexican Spanish and that from the
Spain is akin to the difference between UK English and American English.
Sometimes you use different words or expressions but, for the most part,
they are basically the same, so for a automatic translation tool THAT would
be the least of their problems.

BTW, most of the automatic tools I have found are just awful. Amazingly
enough, one of the best translations I got was using the Microsoft Office
tool for Word.


Regards,


Luis Rodriguez
(Who is a native Spanish speaking, although of the Venezuela variant...)

IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries


On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:30 PM, <web400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:56:00 -0500
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Automatic translation tool for web pages
I think you just made my point though Nathan.

You say your Spanish isn't very good and that it seems OK to you. But
you're not the target - a native Spanish speaker is the target! Would it
make as much sense to them? I doubt it.

It was interesting to me that Google did not seem to differentiate between
Mexican Spanish and Spanish Spanish - but my understanding is that they are
very different languages.


Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com <http://www.partner400.com/>
www.SystemiDeveloper.com <http://www.systemideveloper.com/>

On 18-Nov-09, at 9:06 AM, web400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

My Spanish isn't very good, but the only thing I would change is "a trav?s"

to "por medio".