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Translating WordPress Sites with AI in 2026: Using Gato AI Translations for Polylang

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Translating WordPress Sites with AI in 2026: Using Gato AI Translations for Polylang

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Akseli

5d ago

Installing Bazzite to my friend: Yay!

The Finnish translations clearly being autogenerated (slop tier): Not yay!

I gotta be honest, I'd rather have text just left in English if you can't translate it.

"Password" was translated to different word in same page of the installer. Both were completely wrong.

Then there were words that made no sense: the context was in English but it was very literally translated, so it kept the English context but with Finnish words.

Look I know this is volunteer work but please just don't run your translations through google translate or whatever, because the quality was very much that. Just keep it in English if you don't know how to translate it, a lot of Finns speak English anyway. These complex wrong translations will just confuse users, even seasoned ones like me!

#Bazzite #Linux #Translations #i18n #Finnish

Techdirt 6d ago

Greater Than Zero: The Anti-AI Pushback On Gaming Preservation Efforts Makes No Sense

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Greater Than Zero: The Anti-AI Pushback On Gaming Preservation Efforts Makes No Sense

There is an old axiom you will have heard of before: don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. If we wanted to boil this down to a math equation, it might be described as something like…

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Front Page Mar 16

Chinese teacher shares 18 American names with delightfully awkward meanings in Mandarin

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Playongo 🔞 Translation (NSFW)Mar 13

Holy s***! Worm Banquet was finally approved. Expect that to publish next week. I've submitted Essential: Poisoner so that should be published in the next couple weeks (hopefully 🤞.) In the meantime you can check my currently published #adult #doujinshi #translations on #dlsite here. https://www.dlsite.com/maniax-touch/circle/profile/=/maker_id/RG01002245.html/

ShopwareDevs Mar 3

With #Shopware v6.7.3.0, managing #translations is now built into the core. Learn how to install new languages via CLI, tap into #community translations on #Crowdin, and keep everything update-safe. Read on!

https://www.shopware.com/en/news/adding-maintaining-languages-shopware-dead-simple/

Adding and maintaining new languages in Shopware now became dead simple

Adding and maintaining new languages in Shopware is now very simple. Learn in this blog post about the new method of installing and updating language packs.

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RealZero Feb 27

One of the most hilariously bad translations has actually been the German translation of the game "Don't Starve" back then. (I think it's fixed now).

Examples:

- Chest (the thing you put things and gold and such into) was translated to the word for Chest (breast)

But even more hilarious:

- Log, as in, wood log, after chopping down a tree

Was translated into...wait for it...
"Verarbeitungsprotokoll" which means... "processing protocol" so, a "log file", as in tech.

YES, you chopped trees and got an item with SUUUUUUUUUUUCH a long name, and then built stuff from log files. 😅

#Translations

The Japan Times Feb 25

Natsume Soseki’s belief that true expression transcends literal wording supports the point that AI handling translation frees people to create rather than convert language. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/02/25/japan/sorry-soseki-i-wish-we-had-ai-translation-aeons-ago/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #natsumesoseki #guntergrass #artificialintelligence #translations #books #writing

Sorry Soseki, I wish we had AI translation aeons ago

It should come as little surprise then that one of the jobs at risk of complete replacement by AI is that of translators.

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Ann Feb 24

Today is Longlist day!

At 2PM (3 o'clock in other places in Western Europe) International Booker 2026 will publish their 12/13 translated books (into English) and published in UK and Ireland the last year.
Shortlist will be published late March, and winner in mid May.
This year the translated section of Booker will celebrate ten years. The first to win was (is) one of the greatest authors ever, Han Kang with The Vegetarian (not my favorite book btw).

From an eligible list of approx. 190 books I have managed to read - 15 books! I hope to see the Argentine writer Irene Solà with her 'I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness' there. And Jon Fosse and his 'Vaim' there. The Nordic countries are well presented this year.

Anyone else out here following Booker prizes? And do you have a guess on which books to appear on the list today?

#literature #litteratur #oversattlitteratur #bøker #books #booker #2026 #internationalbooker #translations #irenesola #jonfosse

Andreas 🌈Feb 24

For years, translations in open-source projects like #Plone and its add-on ecosystem has been a huge problem regarding completeness and inconsistencies. These days, it just a matter of minutes of update translations across a dozen languages in minutes using AI - in most cases providing a more consistent and better result than with human translators.

#translations
#i18n