do The Youths these days still know about Pokemon Crystal Vietnamese? So called because it was discovered in a market in Vietnam, it's a romhack translation from Japanese to English (presumably before the real English version released), except it seems to have been made entirely on the basis of a Japanese-to-Chinese dictionary and then a Chinese-to-English dictionary. For example, what's semantically quite close to "insert"...?

(my own screenshots from 2013)

#pokemon #romhack #localization #translation

do The Youths these days still know about Pokemon Crystal Vietnamese? So called because it was discovered in a market in Vietnam, it's a romhack translation from Japanese to English (presumably before the real English version released), except it seems to have been made entirely on the basis of a Japanese-to-Chinese dictionary and then a Chinese-to-English dictionary. For example, what's semantically quite close to "insert"...?

(my own screenshots from 2013)

#pokemon #romhack #localization #translation

Hilariously, it also attempts to translate all-digits dates but then messes them up so they become a completely different date somehow. E.g. 2025-05-26 somehow becomes January 1996 🤷

#DeepL is going the other way, getting quite good now, even at more obscure stuff like blog posts with wordplay and spelling errors.

This observation is based mostly on Lithuanian/English examples.

#Translation

Une mise à jour des langues et textes de la plateforme εxodus est en cours !

Si vous voulez nous aider à la traduire dans une langues que vous maîtrisez c'est par ici :
https://crowdin.com/project/exodus-privacy

#i18n #translation

An update of the εxodus platform's languages and texts is underway!

If you'd like to help us translate it into a language you're fluent in, it's here:
https://crowdin.com/project/exodus-privacy

#i18n #translation

Une mise à jour des langues et textes de la plateforme εxodus est en cours !

Si vous voulez nous aider à la traduire dans une langues que vous maîtrisez c'est par ici :
https://crowdin.com/project/exodus-privacy

#i18n #translation

I'm translating #Scots dialogue in R.L. Stevenson using https://dsl.ac.uk/, and when I look up rare words I find that they cite the story I'm translating.

#translation

I'm translating #Scots dialogue in R.L. Stevenson using https://dsl.ac.uk/, and when I look up rare words I find that they cite the story I'm translating.

#translation

Used Firefox web page translation feature for the first time. Up until now it was mostly annoyance due to drop down appearing on it's own (is there a setting to turn that off?).
The German website was translated seemingly well. Of course I can't verify, but since it was just a simple read, it was good.
One thing where it didn't work that well was initial cookie prompt, where it translated text, but not text on buttons, had to guess which one does what.

#Mozilla #Firefox #translation

Waiting for Godot Has Been Translated Afrikaans

What took so long?

By: Rick de Villiers

https://theconversation.com/waiting-for-godot-has-been-translated-into-afrikaans-what-took-so-long-257345

#Books#Translation#Theatre

Waiting for Godot Has Been Translated Afrikaans

What took so long?

By: Rick de Villiers

https://theconversation.com/waiting-for-godot-has-been-translated-into-afrikaans-what-took-so-long-257345

#Books#Translation#Theatre

YAY! Someone translated my Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs post to another language! Check out the thread at https://neopaquita.es/@microblogc/114828785191022658#Blog#Blogging#Blogs#IndieWeb#Language#Translation

YAY! Someone translated my Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs post to another language! Check out the thread at https://neopaquita.es/@microblogc/114828785191022658#Blog#Blogging#Blogs#IndieWeb#Language#Translation

Akira Otani’s “The Night of Baba Yaga” is a genre-bending novel of violence and tenderness that defies easy categorization. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/07/04/entertainment-news/akira-otani-the-night-of-baba-yaga-crime-writing-award/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #entertainmentnews#japaneseliterature #akiraotani #sambett #thenightofbabayaga #translation #lgbtq #yakuza

Loving the power of occur in #Emacs, specifically multi-occur-in-matching-buffers in my case, for finding and listing in a single buffer all #regex matches from regex-filtered buffers. Searching across .csv terminology files this way gives me a buffer of search results, each line of which takes me to the line of the source file where the occurrence appears. Extremely useful in #translation work for searching across terminology dictionaries I've created in the past. Discovered via Mickey Petersen's Mastering Emacs. https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/searching-buffers-occur-mode

Driving schools in the Chubu region have started using translation apps that recognize spoken words and automatically translate them into other languages. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/30/japan/japan-driving-school-translation-apps/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #translation #apps #driving #foreignworkers #nagoya #mie

Loving the power of occur in #Emacs, specifically multi-occur-in-matching-buffers in my case, for finding and listing in a single buffer all #regex matches from regex-filtered buffers. Searching across .csv terminology files this way gives me a buffer of search results, each line of which takes me to the line of the source file where the occurrence appears. Extremely useful in #translation work for searching across terminology dictionaries I've created in the past. Discovered via Mickey Petersen's Mastering Emacs. https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/searching-buffers-occur-mode

Any native Swedish speakers interested in helping review this translation of https://jointhefediverse.net?

https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/pull/158

#fediverse#JoinTheFediverse #translation #localization #swedish

Any native Swedish speakers interested in helping review this translation of https://jointhefediverse.net?

https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/pull/158

#fediverse#JoinTheFediverse #translation #localization #swedish