[p2p-research] tales of a russian mystery

[Ryan Lanham]

It is curious to see these auto-translated blogs.  In fact, Google Translate
is so good, I regularly now correspond with people in their own language
asking them to send me French, Spanish, German, etc.  Subtleties are lost,
but straight meaning is clear.

Even here I would recommend those who do not speak English as a strong
second language should simply send in their own tongue and then offer a link
to the translated text in Google (or some other.)  Google (and I know I am
starting to sound like a shill for them) works very well.

or...

Es ist merkwürdig, dass diese Auto-Blogs übersetzt. In der Tat, Google
Translate ist so gut, ich jetzt regelmäßig die mit Menschen in ihrer eigenen
Sprache, um sie zu senden Sie mir Französisch, Spanisch, Deutsch, etc.
Feinheiten verloren gehen, sondern gerade Sinne ist klar.

Auch hier empfehle ich diejenigen, die nicht Englisch sprechen, da eine
starke zweite Sprache sollte schicken Sie einfach in ihrer eigenen Sprache
und dann ein Link zu den übersetzten Text in Google (oder einer anderen.)
Google (und ich weiß, dass ich am Beginn der Ton wie ein Grundsatz für sie)
sehr gut funktioniert.

Ryan


On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Tales of a Russian P2P mystery <http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=3480>
> [image: photo of Michel Bauwens] Michel Bauwens
> 8th June 2009
>
>  About two weeks ago, our friend Andrew Paterson made a stunning
> discovery:
>
> *“I stumbled across this blog <http://124omsk.ru/> which itself is quite
> remarkable example of p2p data sharing. Under the strapline ‘Mysterious
> world of ancient legends’ it is really a mystery who is behind this blog,
> who set it up etc. Postings are Russian language translations, mostly from
> P2P Foundation blog. The speed and volume of translations suggests it is an
> automated bot/script doing the translation labour”*
>
> Andrew also discovered that we are not the first to benefit from such
> impromptu and mysterious services.
>
> Here’s what JC Bronsted <http://jcbronsted.livejournal.com/8031.html>wrote:
>
> *“a week or so after creating Jenny’s web page (more below), I decided to
> do a google search for “jcbronsted” to see if her page showed up on the
> results. (It does not, but does for “j c bronsted”, at least at the time I
> did that search.) What did show up was a site in the cyrillic alphabet
> (turned out to be Russian). I was confused and went to that site, trying to
> determine why my name had appeared there. After translating the blurb, I
> figured out that someone had translated a portion of my ‘Distributed
> Peer-to-peer viruses…’ article into Russian!! Turns out this web site had
> collected a series of articles about Peer-to-peer technology or maybe
> viruses or AIs or something and offered little blurbs culled from each. I
> assume it was done automatically with a web crawler, as that particular
> entry has appeared in other similar autogenerated lists. But this one
> actually translated my essay! Very odd.”*
>
> *Any additional info on these Russian mysteries would be much appreciated!
> *
>
> Of course, we’re not complaining, though I’m curious as to the quality of
> such automatic translation.
>
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