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[lojban-beginners] Re: Off-topic: Translation help wanted

Can't help you, but this reminds me of something I was thinking of doing earlier which is to collect together a group of texts to act as a source for translations. The purpose would be two fold, besides my own amusement/frustration that is. The first would be to have a set of practice texts which are pre-rated for difficulty. The second would be to act as a measure of the ability of a language to express a wide range of ideas as we all tend to be limited/influenced by our own sphere of interests. I've noticed this mostly from looking at the texts be offered up for translation when I was wandering around the conglang sites, such as, the in ability of klingon to express every use: However, its vocabulary, heavily centered around Star Trek or 'Klingon' concepts such as "spacecraft" or "warfare", makes it impractical for everyday use [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language].
Anyone out there who already knowns of such a site or wishes to steal this idea - go for it - please let me know so I may submit texts. 


Jeff.


Hal Fulton wrote:

This isn't about Lojban as such, but I know many of you
here are N-lingual (for some N>1).

I have a piece of text (about 250 words) that I want to
translate into as many languages as I can.

I can't pay you, but if/when it is published on the web, I
can credit you as translator.

Also want people who can double-check the translator's work.
Disputes will be settled by a mud-wrestling match.  ;)

If you're interested, email me offlist.

Thanks,
Hal


Desired languages:

      Chinese Japanese Korean
      Hindi
      Arabic Amharic Hebrew Farsi
      Russian Ukrainian
      Spanish Italian Portuguese French Greek
      Swahili
      German Dutch Afrikaans
      Danish Icelandic Swedish Norwegian
      Esperanto Lojban
      Romanian Croatian Serbian Albanian
      others??

Don't read anything into the way I've grouped them.
It means nothing.

HF