This is also partly a test to see if the thing launching the tweets is an automated bot. https://twitter.com/NGMansion
Take a look at this; it seems to be a bot that reposts everything posted on FEU. Which may indicate that there’s at least some audience for it abroad.
Anyways, I stumbled across something today and wanted to hear the community’s thoughts. Discourse has a plugin that integrates post translation. Currently, it would only translate non-English languages into English, but ideally in the future would allow any user to translate posts into their other languages too. The hope is that we could transition into a multi-lingual forum, where users can read/reply in their native languages seamlessly.
It uses Microsoft’s translation service, which offers 2,000,000 characters a month as a free package (the next step up, 4 million, costs $40 per month and it only gets more expensive from there). Hopefully it’s better than Google’s, since there’s a price tag attached. Starting out, we should be able to get away with using the free package without a problem. Translating English posts into non-English languages could provide some challenges down the road, but I think building a multi-lingual community would be a worthwhile goal.
Using a new translation program I just downloaded, which has a translation rating of “9.67 out of 10” I get… pure piss-stained ass. And this is a paid program.
Whoever invents a universal translator that works with no flaws is going to be absolutely drowning in money.
Seriously though, you’d think a program that charges $10/month would be able to not translate ‘reverse sweat’ as a thing. (Don’t worry, I pirated. Doesn’t cost me a dime.)