My Eavesdropping Enabler
| Following up on yesterday’s blog entry concerning the difficulty of eavesdropping on comics sites where my work is being talked about in languages I don’t speak… | |||
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| …my friend Jason writes today to remind me that I can enlist Google’s clumsy but better-than-nothing automated translation tools to get a rough idea of what’s being said.
All I have to do is go here and type (or paste) in the URL of the non-English web page I want to read in something approximating my native tongue, select the languages involved from a pull-down menu, and go for it. I tried this with the La Cárcel de Papal comics blog in Spain I was telling you about yesterday and zap! All became clear. Sort of. Clear enough to sate my curiosity about my book’s standing among at least a few of the Spanish locals who have discovered Dolmen’s well-produced hard-cover edition of Stuck Rubber Baby. |
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