RE: [HCDX] Re:WWW.FREETRANSLATION.COM

["Charles Hutton" <charlesh3@xxxxxxx>]

Bob:

Two people with a lot of experience have said the translations are very bad.
No one has said they are good or even passable. There's no "maybe" at this
point, unless you have received some other feedback?

In spite of your last paragraph, you have received a positive suggestion
that you did not acknowledge. I gave the name of a DX club that has already
done what you suggest - they have created reception reports in various
languages.


Chuck


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[mailto:hard-core-dx-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bob Combs
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 11:19 AM
To: hard core dx
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Re:WWW.FREETRANSLATION.COM


I find it interesting that we have stumbled on a topic that seems to bring
out a lot of "It will never work" people from the woodworks. Maybe it will,
maybe it won't, but unless someone comes up with a better plan, what is a
person going to do?

The www.freetranslation.com is certainly not the absolute translator of
"perfect grammer" when it comes to translating anything to anything. BUT, it
does give a resonable attempt at
translating something, providing you don't go overboard with phrases that
have many meanings. (Side note: I have talked to a lot of people who have
come to this country (USA) from other lands, and I always hear that US
English is one of the hardest languages in the world to understand due to
the many meanings of sound-alike words!). NOTE: I have used the
www.freetranslation.com for French and Spanish reports, and again whereas it
isn't perfect it does get the message across, and, YES, I have gotten
reports back from the stations I send the letters to.

We (HCDX) seem to be a rather multi-country based group so why then do we
not as a group come up with whatever basic 5 languages (English, French,
German, Spanish and whatever the fifth one may be) form letter that we can
all share with each other?
We have a discussion group, we have a web page. We ought to be able to come
up with something that will work.

How about it? Instead of criticising someones attempts to get a letter out,
let us do something
positive as a group about it.

Bob Combs
New Mexico, USA

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