Posted by mgrueni on August 11, 2001, at 13:12:12
In reply to Re: Cult classics - film » mgrueni, posted by dreamer on August 11, 2001, at 8:54:58
< Didn't know you didn't speak much english.I wonder how the babble translator deals with some of these posts :^o >
Hmmm... I never use the "Translate" option.
But as far as I know it`s based on "alta vista´s babelfish", which I once tried just for fun. The result was - how shall I put this - complete rubbish. :o)Here`s an example. First the german text:
"Hallo, wie geht`s? Ich habe keine Ahnung, was ich schreiben soll, also wird das hier wahrscheinlich ziemlich zusammenhangloses Gebrabbel sein"
Which means:
"Hello, how are you? I have not the foggiest idea what to write, so I guess this is going to be just some incoherent babbling"And this is, what Babelfish made of it:
"Hello, how geht`s? I do not have notion, which I am to write, therefore the here probably rather connectionless Gebrabbel will be"See, what I mean? ;o)
It`s not really helpful, so I have to try and use my brain. (Ok, and sometimes a translation software, called "Babylon", which does a good job at translating single words, but is not able to translate whole sentences.)
Micha
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