Languages, Part 4a

 

04a MS-Word Translate.png

 

MS-Office Translate

 

In MS-Office, in Word, under "Review", the above icon can be found with the
word "Translate" under it.

 

Clicking it leads you into a process of translation of your document. This
is done via the Internet, through the browser Internet Explorer, which must
be available on your computer. 

 

The controls appear in a panel on the right of your screen. You choose from
drop-down menus which language you want to translate from and to. When you
click "Translate the whole document", the browser opens and you will soon
have a translation.

 

The number of languages it offers is less than Google, and it does not
include any indigenous African languages at all.

 

It is an effective instrument for translating from French to English, and
vice-versa. As such, it is a help to Africans.

 

But this Internet translator is another example of the regrettable dominance
of the same dominant languages, even with this tool that is capable of
redressing the balance. 

 

It may be that government action would be required, say in the form of
subsidy to service providers or academics, so that automatic translation
services in and between all of our South African official languages is made
available.

 

But the history of PanSALB does not encourage an expectation that this could
happen easily, or soon.

 

.        To download any of the CU courses in PDF files please click here
<https://sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses/> .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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