Google Translation

Thanks to our friends at Google, you can now translate the CC Blog into eight languages by clicking on the flags at the top of the right sidebar.

Obviously these are computer translations, so native speakers of these languages are likely to be amused (or maybe not!) by what the machine spits out. At least now in the eight countries those who do not read English will be able to get some sense of what we have posted.

Apologies to our Swedish (and Danish and Norwegian) friends as Google has yet to provide English-Swedish translation. But then the well-educated Scandinavians all speak English anyway.

Sometimes strange things happen on pages translated into Chinese and Russian -- go figure. After a few seconds a large white square appears over the top of the translated page. Must be a problem at Google's or Blogger's end that, hopefully, will soon be resolved.

Regardless, another example of the ever-advancing, and often amazing, world of technology we live in.