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SirPoonga:
Ok, I think I worded my other post wrong.  I noticed an increase in visitor that either don't speak english or speak poor english.

I was wondering if there is something we can do?  Are there people here who speak multiple languages.

A good example.  I was in chat, someone came in that spoke only spanish.  I tried to talk to him through babel fish, but babelfish only translated about half of everything correctly.  anyone know anything better than babelfish?

SNAAAKE:
There is nothing we could do about it.

Sorry

Can't speak English?Too bad. :P

rampy:

--- Quote from: SNAAAKE on September 22, 2002, 04:07:50 am ---
There is nothing we could do about it.

Sorry

Can't speak English?Too bad. :P

--- End quote ---


well... maybe if there's enough interest one of the admins could create an "international" forum where people could attempt to ask questions in their native/preferred language and if there are others from a similiar region/culture/language they could have a subset of byoac dialogue in german, spanish, or whatever...

Just a thought... I don't know of any translation tool that is better than the fish... I assume google's language tools are on par, but maybe its a little bit better.

rampy

SirPoonga:

--- Quote from: SNAAAKE on September 22, 2002, 04:07:50 am ---
There is nothing we could do about it.

Sorry

Can't speak English?Too bad. :P

--- End quote ---


That's a single minded response.
No one can ever say there is nothing we can do about it.  As the saying goes, were there is a will, there is a way.

Bursar:
If the site was constructed with a Content Management System such as PostNuke or PHPNuke, then there are language modules available. These modules allow users to translate the site into their native language.

Being only an English speaker, I have no idea how accurate these things are, but from what I have seen of foreign sites using these modules, the conversions to English are pretty good.

It would require a complete overhaul of the site, and the forums would have to be changed to a different system that ran as a plugin to either PostNuke or PHPNuke.

Both systems are relatively easy to implement, and there is a large community behind both projects. Personally I use PostNuke as I find it easier to setup and manage, but as always, YMMV.

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