I use it the opposite way when I write.

So blame google for my bad English😎

vikinger wrote:

The way around that is to simply highlight the post you are interested in before you hit the translate button, when Google Translate will then readily translate it (and will allow you to add punctation and spaces (that we all forget in our posting shorthand)....... until the translation makes sense.)

sounds good 

I had been using copy & paste into a separate browser window

how do I install it the way you have it set up ?

elephant wrote:

vikinger wrote:

The way around that is to simply highlight the post you are interested in before you hit the translate button, when Google Translate will then readily translate it (and will allow you to add punctation and spaces (that we all forget in our posting shorthand)....... until the translation makes sense.)

sounds good 

I had been using copy & paste into a separate browser window

how do I install it the way you have it set up ?

Hi Elephant. I dragged the Google Translate English to my browser bar from the Google Translate page.

Then, after opening any (non english) window, hitting the browser button gives you an instant translation. If, however, there is a mixture of languages on the page that defeat the 'auto detect language' feature, just highlighting any section of the text before you hit the translate button is enough to give you a separate Google  page with the selected original text and translation. If it still fails to detect the language, you can choose the original language in the drop-down menu. Hope this makes sense. I only discovered the highlighting text feature when I was about to copy and paste into a separate page (probably as you have been doing.)

Graham

Remove the # sign all of that is after.

Thanks Philippe and Graham, clearly I am doing something "wrong" ... I dragged this address (http://translate.google.co.uk/?hl=en#) to my Safari bookmark bar and I even removed the "#" although google/safari reinsert it when I hit the link

The link simply takes me to the standard google translation page ... even if I have highlighted some text

I assume that there is some other google translation function that is more akin to something that runs a translation script over the page you are in rather than executing a link with content from the current url/page 

So my question is ... where do I find that magic goggle button/script ... please

elephant wrote:

Thanks Philippe and Graham, clearly I am doing something "wrong" ... I dragged this address (http://translate.google.co.uk/?hl=en#) to my Safari bookmark bar and I even removed the "#" although google/safari reinsert it when I hit the link

That is unrelated - the problem Graham and Philippe were talking about is if the forum URL includes a direct anchor to a certain post, like

/forum/imported-unmapped/beogram-6500-an-beosystem2500-betreiben-wie#post-2188734

...instead of just

/forum/imported-unmapped/beogram-6500-an-beosystem2500-betreiben-wie#post-2188734

...which takes you to the top of the topic. Google Translate doesn't like the former for some odd reason (lazy programmers I suppose).

I've never tried the toolbar gadget, but I do sometimes use GT (as well as G&T 😎 ) to confirm what I think I'm reading... I can sort of read the "foreign" subforums directly apart from Spanish and French.

tournedos wrote:

I can sort of read the "foreign" subforums directly

I can "read" them too

I just don't understand them 

Or as a great song puts it ...

Simon and Garfunkel wrote:

People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening

😂

I use Google Chrome browser for reading forums and ebay. It offers to translate a page which is written on language strange to me, as it thinks. Sometimes a bit annoying, but mostly rather handy. I did not install anyt hing to browser, at least do not remember doing so.

Pekka

Pretty certain I dragged a link from the list at the bottom of the tools and resources page