Comments on: Internationalising your blog http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/17/internationalising-your-blog/ Giving you your daily blog fix Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:55:03 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: esofthub http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/17/internationalising-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-900 esofthub Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:00:35 +0000 http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/17/internationalising-your-blog/#comment-900 I'll give the Google translation tool a try. My current Babel Fish box is too darn bulky, and I've been hanking to replace it. Do I think mechanical translation is worth it? Yes. It's better than nothing when you are on a self-imposed shoestring budget. Human translators cost big bucks! I had some human translation done and it cost me $60 for one language (4.5K to 5K words) -- and that was cheap. I wanted more languages translated but the $60 per language focused my efforts. I had others bidders bidding as much as $200+ per language. Ouch! I’ll give the Google translation tool a try. My current Babel Fish box is too darn bulky, and I’ve been hanking to replace it.

Do I think mechanical translation is worth it? Yes. It’s better than nothing when you are on a self-imposed shoestring budget. Human translators cost big bucks! I had some human translation done and it cost me $60 for one language (4.5K to 5K words) — and that was cheap. I wanted more languages translated but the $60 per language focused my efforts. I had others bidders bidding as much as $200+ per language. Ouch!

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