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Arabic Font Size and Other

(Kefrin) — Mon, 23 nov 2009 08:26:39 UT

New format for Translate using IE seems to be a step backwards! The
arabic font is tiny and generally speaking one wants it in even larger
font than the base language (i.e. English) as it is almost impossible
to place the cursor between letters when you are trying to correct a
mistake.

Secondly, in the old version, when you clicked "translate" or

Re: Mechanism of Google Translate

(Harald Korneliussen) — Mon, 23 nov 2009 08:04:41 UT

Well, it does process natural language, but I don't think it has much
in common with what they call Natural Language Processing in academia.
That appears to focus on "understanding" the input (such as a computer
interpreting a natural language command in order to follow it), and
seems primarily rule-based.

When adding Google Translate to Code in Dreamweaver it Shows up Twice in Browsers

(maureenkmccarthy) — Mon, 23 nov 2009 06:34:44 UT

I am adding Google Translate to my redesigned homepage. I copied the
html code from the Google Translate page and pasted it into the code
of my index page in Dreamweaver 8. When I save the file and load it,
the there are two Google Translate widgets that show up, no matter
what browser I view it in. I've tried reloading the page, re-copying

Re: default language setting

(mco) — Mon, 23 nov 2009 04:11:27 UT

Hi Josh,

Thanks for the reply!

I'm not sure if my description was clear. Anyhow, here is a quick way
to see the problem I was trying to describe:

1. Go to [link]. It's
Translate from English
Translate to Chinese (Traditional)
2. Click the "Swap languages" button (the little blue two-way arrow)

Re: Mechanism of Google Translate

(Erlangga) — Mon, 23 nov 2009 01:12:15 UT

Thanks Harald...
So, we can say that Google Translate isn't a Natural Language
Processing? Yes or not?

Re: Missing options, improvement ideas

(EricSch) — Sun, 22 nov 2009 23:39:20 UT

In the mobile version of Google Translate, it saves the history of the
words you just translated. When doing a worksheet or translating a
sentence word by word, this is extremely helpful, in that remembering
the last five or six words one just translated can be difficult.
Obviously, I could write it down, but it just seems odd that a great

Re: When Using teh Translator on the website,

(Matthew F) — Sun, 22 nov 2009 23:20:25 UT

Its not a toolbar that you install for your browser its the website
Translator that you can place on your website of course

[link]

Re: When Using teh Translator on the website,

(Gnom Kuk) — Sun, 22 nov 2009 23:02:41 UT

Unistall google toolbar is best

its crap anyway
all toolbars are crap
google or yahoo or whatever
eating resources and beeing "too helpful" in my opinion
It also takes space from your browser window etc etc
go to google translate manually when needed

When Using teh Translator on the website,

(Matthew F) — Sun, 22 nov 2009 22:35:57 UT

When you translate to another Language or someone types in another
language and your default page is set to English,

I find it does not allow you to change to English as there is no
option for English.

I have removed the page default from the code but now i get this very
unfreindly toolbar or frame as you wish to call it appearing on every

Re: New Google Translate

(Andy1967) — Sun, 22 nov 2009 21:45:03 UT

I agree 100% with rcd1....i hate the new layout sooooo much......pls
let the users the possibility to use the old version....Thanks----
Danke schön!!!!!

Andy Wenk

Defectos de la nueva versión / Defects of the new version

(José Manuel Llamas) — Sun, 22 nov 2009 21:16:20 UT

Hola,
La nueva versión del traductor tiene dos cosas malas:
1 Cuando copias la frase traducida, la frase queda sombrada en azul.
2 En la nueva versión, sólo es posible ver una parte del texto que
estamos traduciendo.

Hi,
The new version of the translator has two bad things:
1 When copying the translated sentence, the sentence is shaded in

Re: New Google Translate

(Gnom Kuk) — Sun, 22 nov 2009 21:16:09 UT

Where is it good ?
Im maybe both stupid and blind but i dont see that its good
It was good
But not anymore
Now its a big irritation problem
Lets have the old Side by Side translation back

Re: Missing options, improvement ideas

(Caitlin D) — Sun, 22 nov 2009 21:10:15 UT

I too have an idea for improvement... accuracy when imputting
infinitives. When I use the English to French translator and I type
"to eat", I get "à manger", which translates literally to "to to eat".
When I type "manger" (the correct infinitive of "to eat") in the
French to English translator, I get "eat", which means nothing without

Missing options, improvement ideas

(ulybka) — Sun, 22 nov 2009 21:00:12 UT

I miss options to make a translation accurate.
For example:
'I see you'
could be in German:
'ich sehe dich' (1 person, informal)
'ich sehe Sie' (1 person, formal)
'ich sehe euch' (several people: I see you all)

The tool cannot guess that. I propose adding an option to select what
we need.

Re: Anyone know what other languages might be available in the future?

(Jose.pm) — Sun, 22 nov 2009 20:29:23 UT

Personally, I'd love to see these three languages: Basque, Quechua and
Esperanto.

Basque is a regional language in Northern Spain, and it is a language
isolate. I think it is likely to see it in Google because there is a
large bilingual Spanish-Basque corpus now. The Instituto Cervantes
site is already offering Spanish-Basque machine translation.