WorldLingo eBay Listing Translator Preview

Now setting it up is fairly straight forward if you’ve ever posted a listing on eBay then you know all you need to know to get started.  Once you’ve created all we need is your listing item number and we’ll give you the code to add to your revised listing description.  While offering the ability to translate your listing we understand the need for security and as such all bidding/commenting interaction will be handled through the untranslated eBay listing.  This is to ensure no risk is taken by any party involved be it the lister, bidder, eBay or WorldLingo.  All of this for the low price of $2 for a lifetime license, in other words for $2 you can add our listing logo to any and all of your eBay listings.

We hope that you take advantage of our new eBay Listing Translator to further broaden your online auction market.  We would also love to here any kind of feedback you have about our eBay Listing Translator.

We’re still looking into other languages to offer translations of the U.S. Patents but for the time being we will be focusing on getting the patents translated into Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, and Arabic.  Keep in mind this isn’t a final decision, as things change I will be making updates to keep you informed.

The WorldLingo translation API is fully documented, with pricing and usage information detailed on the website so there should be no nasty shocks. If you want more translations than we’ve listed, please ask us, we’ve lots of customers who have unique business needs – some of whom translate billions of words each month.

If you’re a developer and want to use a free version of the API, talk to us, we already make 500 word translations available FOC for e-mails, documents, texts, and websites, so why not something you’re working on.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Regards
Martin Pratt
CEO, WorldLingo Translations LLC

In Spanish we now have U.S. Patents from 1975 to 1993 translated into Spanish.  We hope that these translations will help those seeking to get patents of their own by preventing them from attempting to patent something that is already patented.  Also we hope to help those looking for U.S. Patent translations into Spanish so that they can understand what the patent that was issued says. You can search the patents by characters, numbers, or our miscellaneous links.

We are working on making sure the other languages are updated to the same ranges as the Spanish translations but for now in French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, and Arabic have patents from 1975 to 1977.  They can be accessed by going to our U.S. Patent translations into Spanish and then clicking on the language you wish to view the translated patents.

It is very important to know how accurate you need your translation to be because sometimes that fast and often free online translation could do more harm than good.  In 2010 there was a Russian trucker involved in a bar fight in Dordrecht, Netherlands that was sent free.   On the day of the trial, the Russian interpreter showed up in court, but not the trucker.  The interpreter was asked to translate what was written in the summons.  Instead of (translated from Dutch) “you are to appear in court on 3^rd August 2010”, it went more like “you have to avoid being in court on 3 August 2010”. In Dutch, “vóórkomen’, with the stress on the first syllable, means ‘to appear’, while ‘voorkómen’ means ‘to prevent’.   Due to the translation error the trucker was set free.

Not all machine translations are the same of course, some allow special characters such as stresses and accents to be included, while others don’t.  I’m not sure what the equivalent of caveat emptor is when there isn’t a buyer, but whatever it is it would seem to be appropriate – if your Latin is better than mine perhaps you could tell me.

The original Article in Dutch

We can’t wait to see who will become our first mayor, have the most check-ins or remain mayor the longest.

Don’t worry if you have bookmarks or are linking to the old URL it will be redirected to the much neater one we have now.  So nothing will break and you don’t have to update the links, they will keep working.

As we get more of these translated we will be keeping you updated through posts like this.  We hope that you find these translations helpful in any of your patent needs.  You can view the patents we have translated so far by going to our Multilingual Archive’s Patent Page. If you have any comments about our translations of these patents please feel free to post them here.

You can see some of these features on our free translators.  For example on our Free Text Translator page you can find the ability to customize the letter formatting for vowels.  As time goes on we hope to implement more features to further improve upon our amazing machine translators to continue to provide great services.

What are your thoughts on machine translators?  How would you improve upon them?

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