If you want to start a open content project and more market data I can provide it. Even though I live in Chicago, I want to expand the Turkish internet market as much as I can. I ould appreciate if you could send me any updates in the future regarding a project in
turkish. Because I really would like to be involved.

Thanks,

Vural Cifci
http://www.searchenginepapers.com

The quote is Latin, not French, so that’s why it is “et tu” and not “es-tu” or “et toi”. I just liked the rhyming substitution of “français” for “Brute.” The capitals are because it is a title, although that’s admittedly an English convention. I’m not sure how our Latin forebears titled their blog posts. ;^)

OK, at this point I’ll declare the blog title a failure, and will not give up my day job for the life of a comedy writer. But on the up side, we’re seeing really good sampling of the translation tool and getting some good feedback from users. Thanks everyone!

It’s definitly not correct (trust me, i’m French !).

“Es-tu français ?” would mean “Are you French?”
“Et toi, français ?” would mean “And you, French?”

And according to french grammar, “français” should be in lowercase because it’s an adjective (only proper nouns start by a capital letter) and there should be a space between the last word and the question mark, unlike in English.

“Et tu, Brute ?” is Latin, we would translate it “Et toi, Brutus ?” (or in this context “Même toi, Brutus ?” = “Even you, Brutus?”) because there isn’t anymore declension in French.

Hope it helps :)

Nope, it’s correct as “Et Tu, Français?”. This is an (admittedly bad) pun on the quote from Julius Caesar: “Et tu, Brute?” (”And you, Brutus?”).

:D I love it, nice one (tu quoque fili), nothing beats a bit of culture in this technological world…

PS: in that case it should be “Et tu” but don’t worry, it is a Great title!

> But clicking on the link leads to an error of the translation tool, …

There are a number of reasons that certain pages cause the translation engine to conk out, including length, mixed encoding, and certain control characters. We are investigating your page in particular, Jeff, and I’ll try to send you an explanation off-line when we come up with a satisfactory answer.

> The title should be “Es tu Français?” ;-)

Nope, it’s correct as “Et Tu, Français?”. This is an (admittedly bad) pun on the quote from Julius Caesar: “Et tu, Brute?” (”And you, Brutus?”).

> This is a good start but once you can fix translation glitch …

Thanks for the compliment, and yes, we are always striving for better translation quality. As An noted, we are using licensed technology, so our hands are tied to a certain extent, but we are always happy to gather feedback to help us improve what we can. Thanks, Riad!

Guillaume, your example also falls into this category, but until we can clone you, I’ll look into why your translation comes out pluralized.

> Yahoo should seriously consider building the portal in Turkish …

This is a good suggestion, Vural, and I’ll pass it on to those who make the decisions about our market expansions. In the short-term, we on the translation side are looking into machine translation for less-common languages. I would personally *love* to offer Turkish translation, but no promises yet.

Thanks for all the feedback!

–Raymond Flournoy
Linguistic Product Manager
Yahoo! Search