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- Etymology: From the Latin "translatio," meaning "to carry across"
- Translation is evident from as early as the second millennium BCE
- Epic of Gilgamesh among oldest known translated literary works
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Although machine-powered translation is far from perfect, these Translation Tools can help you translate texts, including emails and websites, between a number of different languages.
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What is Translation?
The act of translation involves taking a text written in one language and producing the equivalent text in another language. Translation is an imperfect art as there is no word-to-word correspondence between two languages. A mechanical word-to-word translation cannot take into account grammatical rules, idioms, context or the conventions of writing systems.Etymology
The world "translation" is derived from the Latin "translatio" meaning "to carry across." The Greek word for "translation," "metaphrasis," has provided English with the terms "metaphrase," meaning word-for-word, and "paraphrase," meaning "a saying in other words." The distinction, taken from the Greek, allows translators to differentiate between metaphrase, the formal equivalent of a text, and paraphrase, the dynamic equivalent of a text.
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Translation Tools
- Please be aware that these sites can translate text or a web page, unless otherwise noted.
- Google: Translate
- AltaVista: Babel Fish Translation
- Applied Language Solutions: Free Translator
- World Lingo: Free Translator
- Translated.net: Free translation
- Dictionary.com: Translator
- Dictionary.com only offers text translation.
- Translate 2.0
- Translate 2.0 only offers text translation.
- IMTranslator: Free translation
- IMTranslator only offers text translation.
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@jaamit Well there's no secret to it, just host them in country you're targeting and don't rely on translation tools, find a native speaker!
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wow, looks like i'm getting more international readers using google's translation tools. cool! great! isn't that wild!
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The right event @ the right place @ the right time: Open Source Tools for Machine Translation, Dublin, Jan 2010 http://bit.ly/4rv1yS
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@FunkyDung LOL! :D God bless translation tools!
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