Thursday, November 14, 2024

Word-for-word translation display

word-for-word display

Here is an example of a word-for-word translation display. It is the (maligned) classic; it ignores context and other text attributes (e.g., correct word order in the target) in revealing the literal meaning of words, sometimes phrases. 

The reader may have to work hard at making sense of the target language, let alone how the source conveys its meaning to a source language speaker. However, this display has the advantage of almost precise mapping of the target to the source.

And the target language in this example is __________?

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What they found in our own branch of the
Quello che hanno trovato nel nostro ramo dell'

evolutionary tree came as a shock—the complete
albero evolutivo è stato uno shock—il completo

opposite of a pattern found in other vertebrates.
opposto di un modello riscontrato in altri vertebrati.

For Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and other vertebrate
Per Australopithecus, Paranthropus, e altri gruppi di vertebrati,

groups, as the number of species in a group
quando il numero di specie in un gruppo

went up, competition increased, and the rate
aumentava, la competizione cresceva, e il tasso

of forming new species slowed down.
di formazione di nuove specie rallentava.

In Homo, as the number of species went up,
Nel genere Homo, con l'aumento delle specie,

competition increased, and the rate of forming
la competizione cresceva e il tasso di formazione

new species got even faster.
di nuove specie accelerava ulteriormente.

The results, published in the journal Nature
I risultati, pubblicati nella rivista Nature

Ecology & Evolution, challenge previously held beliefs
Ecology & Evolution, sfidano le convinzioni precedenti

about the history of our species, and raise new
sulla storia della nostra specie e sollevano nuove

questions about how competition formed us into
domande su come la competizione ci abbia formato

the species we are today.
nella specie che siamo oggi.

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

GlossySnake

Github has a number of projects categorized as interlinear. Do a search and see what comes your way.

Meanwhile . . . 

This is an ambitious project which promises(?) a sophisticated interlinear translation web application.

https://glossysnake.com/

The project repository is here.

https://github.com/parkchamchi/GlossySnake

The readme in the repository is a nice discussion of all matters interlinear.

References include the Hamilton method of teaching languages. 

See https://theamericanscholar.org/the-new-old-way-of-learning-languages/

for some background on this and related methods.

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Quick and clean

Want to have an interlinear translation of text on a web page? Here is a sample page for this source.*

https://slowgerman.com/2024/10/29/kurt-eisner-bayerns-erster-ministerpraesident/

Here is the interlinear English translation of text on that page. Magic!

Sample from slowgerman.com.

How you ask? Add the ImTranslator extension to your browser (e.g., Chrome or Firefox). Select the text on a source language page and invoke the extension for an interlinear view (right mouse click, for example). Couldn't be simpler.

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* Slow German as a site and service--highly professional and recommended.