Comments on: Episcopal Church urged to translate its website into Spanish

By: madgebaby

madgebaby — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:37:19 +0000

They have had a lot on their plate over the last few months, Frank, you know with convention and all

By: Caleb Powers

Caleb Powers — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:02:07 +0000

Something tells me that a native speaker of Spanish would hardly be satisfied with the result of Google Translator; I know when I translate something into English with it, you’ve then got to go back and translate Google English into some semblance of the Queen’s English.

By: Bible Quizzing

Bible Quizzing — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:01:43 +0000

I’ll do the job for only $200,000. It’ll save the church 50 grand.

It would take about 60 seconds per page to insert a link to Google Translator.

By: Caleb Powers

Caleb Powers — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:57:09 +0000

I realize that we’re in the global era, when we have “Anglican” churches in non-English speaking countries all over the world, but I have to stop and wonder a bit as to why people who speak languages other than English would be interested in us. After all, the whole purpose of the “Anglican” communion was to provide a generic church for English speaking people. We have fleshed out that generic church into a general, liberal, generic protestant church that apparently has enough juice in it to attract non-English speakers. So much of Anglican worship and traditions, though, are wrapped up in our particular forms of worship — in English — that I wonder whether anything like the spirit of what we have would translate well in other languages.

That’s not to suggest I’m against the translation, but I do wonder who will read it.

By: newark survivor

newark survivor — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:46:43 +0000

How many $600 ashtrays does that come with?