Guest guest Posted January 29, 2010 Report Posted January 29, 2010 Hi All, Those interested in using " Google Translate " as a help to translating Chinese Med data may wish to bookmark these: World Federation of Chinese Medical Societies Homepage: http://tinyurl.com/y8j3q9v Chinese translation and publishing needs uniform standards: http://tinyurl.com/yahnkn3 Best regards, Quote
Guest guest Posted January 29, 2010 Report Posted January 29, 2010 I'm sorry if this sounds crude, but I think it needs to be said: do these standards represent the standards this group wishes to implement? Some of the sentences in that report are completely incomprehensible. I don't want to re-open any sort of standardization debate here, but if the people promoting standardization of Chinese medical terms (this has been tried again and again) can't even put together a coherent announcement, why should we trust them for making standardization decisions? , " " < wrote: > > Hi All, > > Those interested in using " Google Translate " as a help to translating > Chinese Med data may wish to bookmark these: > > World Federation of Chinese Medical Societies Homepage: > http://tinyurl.com/y8j3q9v > Chinese translation and publishing needs uniform standards: > http://tinyurl.com/yahnkn3 > > Best regards, > > > > Quote
Guest guest Posted January 29, 2010 Report Posted January 29, 2010 I agree, the stuff listed at this site is horribly substandard. I hope Eric Brand will weigh in on this, as he has attended meetings in both Taiwan and Mainland China on translation standards. On Jan 29, 2010, at 6:46 AM, d_munez wrote: > I'm sorry if this sounds crude, but I think it needs to be said: do these standards represent the standards this group wishes to implement? Some of the sentences in that report are completely incomprehensible. I don't want to re-open any sort of standardization debate here, but if the people promoting standardization of Chinese medical terms (this has been tried again and again) can't even put together a coherent announcement, why should we trust them for making standardization decisions? > > , " " < wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > Those interested in using " Google Translate " as a help to translating > > Chinese Med data may wish to bookmark these: > > > > World Federation of Chinese Medical Societies Homepage: > > http://tinyurl.com/y8j3q9v > > Chinese translation and publishing needs uniform standards: > > http://tinyurl.com/yahnkn3 > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > > > Quote
Guest guest Posted January 30, 2010 Report Posted January 30, 2010 Z'ev et al, I was invited to go as I am a member. I went last year and found it to be quite a waste of my time, so I didn't bother to go this year. Perhaps in the future I will go, but it just didn't seem like the best way to spend my Saturday. I am not surprised that they couldn't put together a reasonable statement. Thomas Quote
Guest guest Posted February 1, 2010 Report Posted February 1, 2010 To be fair- the links that Phil provided are " google translated " links- so they do NOT contain the actual English content of their webpage. The real English version of their webpage is not that good either, but certainly better than google translate. I went to and spoke at the conference; this year several westerners presented, myself included. James Flowers was a hit, especially when he referred to the " hippie counterculture " in the west that spawned our profession. This was news to most of the native Chinese audience (*: ... HFL , wrote: > > Z'ev et al, > > I was invited to go as I am a member. I went last year and found it to be > quite a waste of my time, so I didn't bother to go this year. Perhaps in the > future I will go, but it just didn't seem like the best way to spend my > Saturday. > > I am not surprised that they couldn't put together a reasonable statement. > > Thomas > > > Quote
Guest guest Posted February 3, 2010 Report Posted February 3, 2010 , <zrosenbe wrote: > > I agree, the stuff listed at this site is horribly substandard. > I hope Eric Brand will weigh in on this, as he has attended meetings in both Taiwan and Mainland China on translation standards. I just wrote a blog at Blue Poppy's website to address this issue. Here is the link: http://www.bluepoppy.com/blog/blogs/blog1.php/2010/02/03/tcm-terminology-by-comm\ ittee-the-challen Eric Brand Quote
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