Your new translation system is terrible!

Question

Please remove your new translation system! When I paste a translation onto a different page in mircro soft word and try to edit it, the system constantly returns me to your website! This is crazy! I cannot edit the translations without going back and forth between my text and your website. It is so frustratrng.

Please fix this problem! or I will go to a different translation site!

Edit: no names or emails please,

:O You shouldn't give out your email address publicly like this. This is why we have the ''send message'' option on SD. - HotChickCD, Jun 21, 2011

It's ok, I only entered him to win the $100,000 vacation getaway and those wal-mart gift cards because I was visitor # 1,000,000. I'm such a good amigo right? Jeje - DJ_Huero, Jun 21, 2011

I am commenting here since the other thread was closed. That's too bad because I had some good results with the new system - sanlee, Jun 21, 2011

Answer 1

Hi nvdsmith1,

Sorry for the trouble with the links. A change has been made that I think may have fixed this issue. Can you try it again and see if it works now?

Thanks, Chris

Answer 2

Hi NvdSmith

You're right, the new transltor embeds the links back to Spanishdict so that you can click on the words and get definitions.

In my edition of Microsoft Word, I get rather ugly underlined links. I have to hold down shift for them to function as links, so I don't exactly have your problem. But I can't say I like that much either.

The good new is, you can switch back to the old version for now, and you can give your reasons why. I have circled the links below for you-

Answer 3

Hi and welcome to the forum. There is a previous thread on this subject. You can comment on this thread here.

New translation function

This thread has been closed. So comment in this one, I guess. - sanlee, Jun 21, 2011

Answer 4

I have reported the issue, I haven't got a clue what this is about...but I guess Chris will know.

I will let you know

Answer 5

I like the approach but yes, that is a problem. What seems to be happening is that when you cut and paste the translation it is highlighted as if it were a URL. That's a nuisance which I got around by copying it into the google window then copying it again.

The solution would be to turn off the tiny bit of code that tells it to be a highlighted cut and paste object.

I don{t use Word. . .does it always do this wen copying from websites? What happens when the content changes? Is it like hot-linking, one of the hackers' favorites? - lorenzo9, Jun 21, 2011

Answer 6

Try looking at the responses on this thread

HI, Ian. I just posted the same thing. - sanlee, Jun 21, 2011

I know i have been trying to comment on it. But the system seems slow just now. - ian-hill, Jun 21, 2011

Answer 7

Posted by Ron:

This is Ron who filed a complaint about the new system under the title "Your new translation system is terrible".

I appreciate the several people who responded to the problem, but please know that a staff person named Chis solved it, so the system is now working fine for me. I hope it continues to work well, and that it works for everyone else!

Again thank you all. No more responses are necessary!

I am closing this thread on his request. sandy , please repost on the other thread if you wish.

Answer 8

I was just going to comment on the other translator page that Ian had, but it has been closed. That is too bad because I just tested a large text and surprisingly enough I found the new translators to be very good in their translations and the Babel, the only one that could handle the large translation to be poor. Too bad we cannot discuss this on that thread. Oh well.

Answer 9

In MS Word (at least the latest two versions thereof) there are three paste options, one of which is "Keep Text Only". This gets around the hyperlink issue.

Answer 10

I wonder why it is being used again.

Answer 11

¡Bienvenido al foro amigo!

Amigo, it doesn't seem like you have been here long, all of your stats are 0... how many times have you used it, and are you sure you're using everything correctly. As well, an important thing, have you tried duplicating the issue on another computer? I'm pretty computer savvy and I can't seem to come across this error you're talking about.

Answer 12

Oh snap...

I'm going to test it out. I'll let you know if I have the same problem!

Here's a quick solution:

OK, amigo. Click here. Enter a translation. Click "translate". After doing so, scroll down. You'll see the option to send feedback, as well as switch back to the old translation ways. Try that out.