{"id":303,"date":"2007-02-21T19:22:53","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T18:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/21\/305\/"},"modified":"2007-02-21T19:22:53","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T18:22:53","slug":"green-with-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"Green with envy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I discovered quite a good <a href=\"http:\/\/freetranslation.imtranslator.net\/\">online translator<\/a> that translates between a number of different languages from Arabic to Russian. I\u2019ve been using it to get an English translation of the Arabic text I\u2019m adding to a website to ensure that the text is going in the right places. This is necessary where the translation is inadequately labelled, or doesn\u2019t follow the original English text.<\/p>\n<p>When translating between Arabic and English, the results are often a bit strange, probably due to the very different structure of the two languages, but they give you the gist of the text. Here\u2019s an example of a sentence in Arabic, with the English translation from the online translator, and the original English text:<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span dir=\"rtl\">\u0643\u0645\u062c\u0645\u0639 \u064a\u062c\u0639\u0644 \u0645\u0646 \u0623\u0634\u062f \u0648\u0623\u0643\u0641\u0623 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0646\u0627\u0641\u0639\u064a\u0646 \u0644\u0647\u0627 \u0645\u0646\u0630 \u0648\u0642\u062a \u0637\u0648\u064a\u0644 (The Green).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Online translation: The pool makes it more efficient Almenavaina time since fold l (The Green).<\/p>\n<p>Original version: A campus to make many of its longer-established rivals turn green.<\/p>\n<p>Here are Chinese and Russian translations of the same sentence with online translations into English.<\/p>\n<p>\u9019\u662f\u4e00\u500b\u4ee4\u5f88\u591a\u9019\u6240\u5927\u5b78\u7684\u9577\u671f\u7af6\u722d\u8005\u773c\u7d05\u7684\u6821\u5712 [\u8fd9\u662f\u4e00\u4e2a\u4ee4\u5f88\u591a\u8fd9\u6240\u5927\u5b66\u7684\u957f\u671f\u7ade\u4e89\u8005\u773c\u7ea2\u7684\u6821\u56ed]<br \/>\nThis is a campus which command very many this universities\u2019 long-term competitors is jealous<\/p>\n<p>\u044f\u0432\u043b\u044f\u0435\u0442\u0441\u044f \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u043c\u0435\u0442\u043e\u043c \u0437\u0430\u0432\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u0434\u043b\u044f \u043c\u043d\u043e\u0433\u0438\u0445 \u0431\u043e\u043b\u0435\u0435 \u0441\u0442\u0430\u0440\u044b\u0445 \u0443\u043d\u0438\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0441\u0438\u0442\u0435\u0442\u043e\u0432-\u043a\u043e\u043d\u043a\u0443\u0440\u0435\u043d\u0442\u043e\u0432<br \/>\nIs a subject of envy for many older universities-competitors<\/p>\n<p>In English jealousy is associated with the colour green &#8211; the \u2018rivals turn green\u2019 with envy. The equivalent expression in Chinese is \u4ee4\u2026\u773c\u7d05 &#8211; \u2018makes \u2026 (their) eyes red\u2019. What colour is jealousy in other languages?<\/p>\n<p>Another useful site I found today is an <a href=\"http:\/\/imtranslator.net\/speller.asp\">online spell checker<\/a> for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish &#038; Ukranian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I discovered quite a good online translator that translates between a number of different languages from Arabic to Russian. I\u2019ve been using it to get an English translation of the Arabic text I\u2019m adding to a website to ensure that the text is going in the right places. 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