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    Player annewandering's Avatar
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    auto translate and functionality are oxymorons. there are some great translation programs out there so it puzzles me why ours is so lacking. the thought just struck me that it really isnt normal translations. there are just so many game terms that the translater is basically writing two new languages throwing in english, japanese, german etc as well.
    Ok I wanted to test this idea out so went to google translate and picked the opening post on gladiator job. I copied the text into the form and asked it to be translated to latin but any language would have shown the same thing.
    Now this is what I got.

    Job Gladiator (A + GreatSword)
    Ante caret lege FFXI main job Greatsword alit et videre illam pis ex Iob FFTA lusus et usus est scriptor defensoris Abilitys pariter.

    Add officium

    Gladiator (principale greatsword telum) Sub arma cuspide Club gladius, scutum
    (Dicere hoc Sam / Sch / thf / Bellum)

    Abilitys:

    Beatdown (2HR) (proxima facit, tela rudis damnum duplice tollit hafe tua acc)

    (Double manibus) ~ (dualwield Disables)
    (Main Hold telum manu tenes manibus) (telo artes & meliorem & atk eludere)
    Hoc lineamentum eu mos opus manu arma I ut gladium, etc fustibus

    Blitz (Eva et omnes concursus ad impetum contra statuit temporis)

    Rush (def extulit resistit & accipi damnum crastino)

    Meltdown (proxima facit, tela rudis sed damnum hafe hafe in tollit in arma Eva enemys artes)

    Blades particularum (hit concursus Next Element # resistit tollit in hostem tela meliorem particularum impetus magicis artibus) (Fire lv95 particularum tollit resistere LX)

    Lv40 Fireblade
    Lv60 IceBlade
    Lv35 WaterBlade
    Lv40 Thunderblade
    Lv35 Earthblade
    Lv50 Windblade
    Lv60 ShadowBlade
    Lv50 Lightblade

    Wild Swing (proxima unius weaponskill Facit aga)

    Job lineamenta

    Lv10 Greatsword1 (greatsword iniuriis Impoves acc)

    Double lv20 tradidit (Alow ornare aliquam telum manu I II damnum melior manus)

    Lv30 Greatsword2

    Element lv35 Blade1 (uno elemento ORDO X resistit tollit ab hoste)

    X% ancipiti lv40

    Element lv45 Blade2

    Lv50 Greatsword3






    Merits1:
    -2 Blade particularum plus resistit per elemetal -10 semel INAEQUO V / V
    Blitz oppugnemus addit cum impetus Eva (uno gradu% counter damnum oppugnationum)


    Merits2:


    Do you see the problem? Even though english has a lot of latin based words it should not have so many words from english just not translated at all because there is no latin equivalent. In all truth there isnt really an english equivalent either. The words just look english to us but they have entirely unique meanings.
    This has to make the whole auto translate more difficult from the start. I do not like the autotranslate feature at all but its probably a lot harder thing to make than looks like at first glance.
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    Last edited by annewandering; 03-21-2011 at 07:12 PM.