Social Translation and the Wisdom of Crowds
13 years ago - Ultan Ó Broin on April 30, 2007
Social Translation and the Wisdom of Crowds
13 years ago - Ultan Ó Broin on April 30, 2007
Could social translation represent a serious threat to Language Service Providers (LSPs) and other localization groups? I think it could, and will, and other globalization analysts have earmarked social translation as an industry development to watch.
Of course, the immediate criticism that will be leveled at social translation will be one of quality. However, if publishers make their terminology glossaries freely available, then the quality issue could be addressed. Even if they didn’t, anyone who has read The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki will realize that bad translations would be driven out by good ones as “the crowd” establishes its own common user dialogue…
Well worth a read…
And for those more, er, “obscure” languages, why the Long Tail will take care of those…
It’s going to be interesting times ahead ….
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