Here is the text:
Swing Dance
encompasses many dances. I think of Swing Dance as East Coast Swing, and
Lindy Hop. East Coast is a six count dance, and Lindy Hop is an eight
count dance. East Coast Swing came from Lindy Hop. Lindy Hop
started in the late 1920s and Twist Mouth George introduced the step at the
Savoy Ballroom. However, Twist Mouth George didn’t come up with the name,
Shorty Snowden did. Shorty drew inspiration from newspaper headlines,
LINDYS HOP, about Charles Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic (Govenar,
2004).
Here is the text translated by Babylon 10:
Swing Dance
abarca muchos bailes. Creo que de Swing Dance como Costa Este giro y Lindy Hop.
Costa Oriental es una danza de seis, y Lindy Hop es un ocho de danza. East
Coast Swing de Lindy Hop. Lindy Hop comenzó a finales de la década de 1920 y
Girar boca George presenta el paso en el Savoy Ballroom. Sin embargo, el Giro
Boca George no viene el nombre, Shorty Snowden. Shorty de inspiración a los
titulares de la prensa, LINDYS HOP, de Charles Lindbergh de vuelo a través del
Atlántico
First, Babylon had problems with Swing Dance but not Lindy Hop. I expect the dance styles to keep their
original names. Babylon sometimes translates
Swing Dance, as Costa Oriental and sometimes it translates East Coast Swing as
Costa Este giro, and other times it leaves them alone. It also didn’t translate Savoy Ballroom, which
I liked. It seems acceptable for proper
nouns to keep their original language.
Babylon left Shorty’s nickname alone but translated Twist Mouth Georges
nickname. The inconsistencies are minor
frustrations for such a small text.
Also, Babylon cut off the text and didn’t include (Govenar, 2004). There is a word limit to the free trial, and
a translation limit. You can only use
the translate bubble five times for free.
Babylon works in Microsoft Word, so if you click on red text in
Microsoft Word, Babylon takes over on the suggestions. I found Babylon’s suggestions to be nicer
than Word, but I still like having Word’s choices.
Here is the text translated by Google:
La danza del oscilación abarca
muchos bailes. Creo que de la danza del oscilación como el Este giro Coast,
y Lindy Hop.
Costa del Este es
una danza de seis conde y Lindy Hop es un baile
conteo de ocho. Este Coast Swing vino de Lindy
Hop. Lindy Hop
comenzó a finales de los años 1920 y Giro
Boca George introdujo
el paso en el Savoy Ballroom. Sin embargo, Twist Boca George no estaba a la altura con el nombre,
shorty Snowden hizo. Chiquito se inspiró en titulares
de prensa, Lindys HOP, acerca del vuelo de Charles
Lindbergh a través del Atlántico
Google was inconsistent with East Coast Swing, but left Lindy Hop
alone. Google didn’t fare much better
with the English nicknames. Once it left
Twist alone, but it also translated it once too. It altered shorty’s name both times. I don’t know why it lowercased the s. For Google Translate, it might do it
different each time because you can suggest better translations. One of the nice features in Google Translate
is the ability to change sentence phrases.
If you mouse over parts of the translation, Google will offer additional
suggestions that might work better for what you are trying to achieve.
Here is a screen shot comparing how each program translates one word
at a time. I like the interface of
Google Translate better. It feels more
in depth.
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| Babylon 10 vs. Google Translate |
For my personal use, Google Translate is fine. However, I did enjoy using Babylon. If you do use any service like Google
Translate or Babylon 10 for official use, you will need to edit it. Or you can pay someone to edit it for
you. Babylon offers a human translation
service and you can leave comments for the Translator. It costs $13.76 to translate the 86 words
used as an example in this post.
My name is Robert and I write a blog called
Swing Dance Dallas. http://swingdanceutd.blogspot.com
Govenar
A. (2004). Stompin’ at the Savoy: The story of Norma Miller. Somerville,
MA: Candlewick.
