Write for machine translation Write for machine translationMachine translation has a bad reputation: there are collections of amusing mistakes made by automatic translators. But there are also good reasons why we need to use machines to translate our words. Companies which distribute their products around the world need to have instructions written in many languages, and human translators are expensive. Most of the World Wide Web is in English, and people need to be able to read these pages. We can learn to write in such a way that machines can translate our words. The results will not be perfect, but they will convey our meaning. If we write well enough, we will have to write only once, and we will be understood all over the world. When we write for translation, there are three possibilities:
This site is intended to offer you some assistance when you write for translation by machine. If you have comments or suggestions, write to me here. Updated 2011-05-09 |