Ghacks Technology News: ScreenTranslator is an open source tool that can translate text from images using OCR ⌘ https://www.ghacks.net/2020/10/24/screentranslator-is-an-open-source-tool-that-can-translate-text-from-images/

occasionally, translations are better than the originals, so why not take your favorite book and try and craft the perfect language for it

Monal IM: Monal 4.8 coming with improved notifications and translations ⌘ https://monal.im/blog/monal-4-8-coming-with-improved-notifications-and-translations/

Monal IM: Translate Monal ⌘ https://monal.im/blog/translate-monal/

When people are born, they all start good, but even though they all start out about the same, you ought to see them after they have had time to become different from one another by picking up habits here and there!“. Translation Dr. Linebarger, aka Cordwainer Smith Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world? | Hacker News

a new twtxt/weewiki feature: any word starting with ‘!’ will translate to an internal weewiki reference in my HTML renderer. Example: here is my !wiki_index

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Victor Séjour’s Le Mulâtre https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/23/mulaitre.html #books #literature #blackhistorymonth #translation #french #announcement

First function body translated. Still no variable declarations, though. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103229216904239835

Mu’s translator is growing complex. Lots of book-keeping for entering/exiting scopes: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103053133325948545

Beginnings of a translator for a memory-safe language: http://akkartik.github.io/mu/html/apps/mu.subx.html. Just empty functions so far.

The #xmpp newsletter 10/2019 is the first one which got translated to German: https://www.jabber.de/xmpp-newsletter-01-oktober-2019-fosdem-2020-modernisierung-von-xmpp-peer-networks/

“Thinkfluencer” might be one of the most pompous nouns invented in the last five years but at least it isn’t as confusing as using “clerk” as a translation of “_clerc_”.

GitHub - historicalsource/zork-german: German-Language Translation of Zork (Unreleased) (Infocom) https://github.com/historicalsource/zork-german

The most unrealistic part of Super Dimension Fortress Macross is the way that the translated ancient pop song could be broadcast on the radio. All the ancient sumerian pop songs are shit like ‘let’s cover each other in honey and lick it off’

shout out to everybody who keeps translating ‘denpa’ as ‘microwave’ instead of ‘psychotronic’: 10/10 subtle troll, excellent work

Bad idea of the day: International ‘journalist exchange’ agreements – newspapers in different countries have an arrangement where they’ll trade journalists periodically & reprint each other’s stories in translation, by entering into clubs.

Translating HyperTalk to JavaScript http://lexnet.bravepages.com/HTMLJS.htm

Apparently hot take: automation tools don’t obviate abstract discussions about how best to think about decisions (like ‘should translations be precise or should they be accurate’ or ‘what is the good’) but make them more important.

Translating HyperTalk to JavaScript http://lexnet.bravepages.com/HTMLJS.htm

You can trap even powerful gods in the right language: Well-hidden ambiguities will allow you to bind them, provided you can get the scripture translated that makes up their fabric

Remember when this happened with latin & it turned out lorem ipsum was being compared to political blogs, like 10 years ago? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npeg/why-is-google-translate-spitting-out-sinister-religious-prophecies

The difficulty in translating ‘dokidoki’ for non-otaku audiences is a great example of why conceptual frames are a useful idea. You can literally translate it as ‘badump’ because it’s the heartbeat sfx, but you lose something.

Dao De Jing Translations http://www.daoisopen.com/ddjtranslations.html

The Quest for a Universal Translator for Old, Obsolete Computer Files - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-open-old-computer-files

splice in the translator AI through your neuroport, trace the roots of language with its digital fingers, be a both synthetic and synesthetic linguist

This Code Is Remix… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbzvad/this-code-is-remixing-translations-of-the-bible-to-find-new-meanings

For added fun, introduce extra levels until you arrive at the conceptual equivalent of “translated to Japanese and back ten times”

After their deaths, the great translators of their times are scanned and distilled into software, so that they may be eternal ambassadors

Interspecies translation is a delicate task, requiring not only intimate knowledge of both cultures but also an accurate qualia mapping

the moment the “translating the output of machines” meaning of “machine translation” overtakes “translation of human languages by machines”

one german word which doesn’t have a good translation (see its root word) https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/841732332449067012/photo/1

how to best translate the library w/ its functions (retreat, reading, but also representation, signaling) into this age without being phony

translated: moon-stink-and-flies. freed-thoughts-in-the-night. prospector-tooth.

He translates from languages that don’t exist. Not just dead but never spoken. Exquisite poems conceived by pulsars, finally accessible.

djinni make “whoosh”, not “wish”. all they can produce is wind. translation error. so sorry.

It would be nice to have a calculus (to account for translation, friction, perturbation, etc) to explore the design space programmatically.