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[[TC]►Leon◄]

(2014-04-25 12:30)KaraK Wrote:  Isn't there an automatic google translator thing?
Bad translation, but it's decipherable if you fluently speak the translated language.

The problem arises when someone with a non Germanic native tongue tries to stuff the entire test through Google translate. An example of a problem would be that because the sentences in some cases are back to front vs English, the questions become completely incomprehensible as the sentences would make no sense and multiple words will be translated wrongfully. This is likely to make the user decipher the now very cryptic question wrong, which in turn causes him to fail the test. Problem is, he can now blame it on Google and TC.

I think all of us at TC would like the tests - and rules for that matter - to be in multiple languages. We've done it before, but maintaining it is a lot of work and every time there's a small edit and/or something gets added, that be to the insim or the general ruleset, you need people which native languages correspond with each translation. The people that wrote them up in the first place might have left the community, so you'll need to find new ones and ensure that their language capabilities are strong enough to convey the translations properly. You also need them to do it for free. It's alot of work that's tedious and very, very boring.