seefah Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Can someone recommend a translation service who are open today? I recall some time ago someone mentioning a good one between Beach and Second Road, but can't find the post. Doesn't need to be that one though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenoormit Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 what do you need translated? if it's documents, just use MS Word 2010, it translates perfect English to thai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BugJackBaron Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 So what does it translate IMperfect English into? I would never trust a computer to translate anything that was important. Many Visa Agency's offer translation services..just walk around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seefah Posted April 3, 2011 Author Share Posted April 3, 2011 I agree also, that computer translations aren't always 100% correct. Would be great if they were. Fortunately the urgency of getting a document translated has gone, although I will still need to get it translated of course, but as its Monday tomorrow, every translation service should be open. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenoormit Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 So what does it translate IMperfect English into? I would never trust a computer to translate anything that was important. Many Visa Agency's offer translation services..just walk around. Imperfect English? MS Word has a thing called "spelling and grammar" check so why would it be imperfect? I used it for legal documents and my lawyer said it was perfect. The words that even Thailanguage has no Thai word it actually uses the English word as a real Thai would have to do. Also it translates not only Eng to Thai but any language to any other language. try it out with a simple story and have a Thai read it and tell you what they think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB1950 Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 (edited) So what does it translate IMperfect English into? I would never trust a computer to translate anything that was important. Many Visa Agency's offer translation services..just walk around. Imperfect English? MS Word has a thing called "spelling and grammar" check so why would it be imperfect? I used it for legal documents and my lawyer said it was perfect. The words that even Thailanguage has no Thai word it actually uses the English word as a real Thai would have to do. Also it translates not only Eng to Thai but any language to any other language. try it out with a simple story and have a Thai read it and tell you what they think. The spelling and grammar checks in Word works for English, but not Thai. Thais often won't tell you it doesn't make sense. A better test is to translate the English into Thai, then translate the Thai back into English. You will often find that it is not so perfect. Translation is an art that a machine is not yet capable of doing. But you can believe what you want to believe. One other thing, Thais generally don't read English phonetics very well, so the English word is useless, you often need a phonetic transliteration in Thai. For example, there is no Thai word for 'ball' as is 'football'. Thais quite often pronounce it as 'ban'.as in 'footban'. . BTW, Word uses Microsoft's Bing translation service. Bing translations generally are not as good as Google translations for English/Thai. I would have to agree with BugJackBaron, I would never trust a computer to translate anything that was important. Edited April 5, 2011 by BB1950 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenoormit Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 well like I said before I trans Eng to THai for legal and my Thai lawyer sId it wAs great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenoormit Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 (edited) also what do you meN no Thai word for ball? I read write and speak Thai and the word for ball is 2. ลูกบอล luukF baawnM a ball. that comes from www.Thai-language.com Edited April 5, 2011 by Yenoormit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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