Show HN: Learn any language when committing to git with termit gem

by pawurb • 12 years ago

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plus9z3• 12 years ago

I'm very confused about the purpose of this. If it's just taking advantage of the Translate API so you don't have to use the browser app, I can see the convenience of being able to, say, write a local script without having to munge through API docs and get a Google account and so on. However, I'm confused about it being branded as a language learning tool...

pawurb3• 12 years ago

Check out the zsh git hook described in the docs. Every time you do a commit you can see and hear its message translated to the language that you would like to learn. I find it useful when learning french now since I do dozens of commits every day.

plus9z3• 12 years ago

See, my problem with this idea is the inaccuracy of Google Translate's translations. For Romance languages, the results are questionable enough (I'm also learning French at the moment, and anything more than simple sentences can be hit-or-miss); for non-Romance languages, the sentences are just hilariously bad. A sentence as simple as "Hey, cowboy where is your horse?" is translated into Chinese as the slightly mangled 嘿，牛仔是你的马在哪里？ according to the project's README. (To non-readers of Chinese, that 是 should be replaced by a comma.)

(As an aside, I got the strangely reordered and even more ungrammatical "哎牛仔哪里是你的马？" when I tested it myself in-browser. Talk about unreliable.)

riffraff• 12 years ago

i think post commit hooks would be a better idea than aliasing git? interesting hack nonetheless :)

EDIT: also I presume you could use afplay on OSX which is preinstalled rather than suggesting installing mpg123

pawurb3• 12 years ago

You are welcome to submit a PR then :)

Show HN: Learn any language when committing to git with termit gem

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