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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

Star Trek becomes more science fact every day.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20004210


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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~

Waiter! There is a babel smiley - fish in my phone!

smiley - pirate


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Post 3

Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

smiley - winkeyeforget the phone, she's nicesmiley - drool

smiley - biggrin


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Gnomon - time to move on

My daughter explained to me that GoogleTranslate doesn't have any dictionaries for the languages it translates. It searches the web for bilingual pages, and works out which words correspond to which by correlation. It can therefore be surprisingly good, as well as spectacularly bad.


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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~

I recently installed both a Danish-English dictionary and an English Thesaurus. Very helpful when Google Translator gives up or plays silly bugger smiley - biggrin

smiley - pirate


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You can call me TC

Google is just as good a translator as any - all to be taken with a large dose of common sense. I often look at Linguee, but it doesn't make as much effort as Gnomon's daughter's explanation of google - it just places the chunks of text side by side for the reader to do the work. Context is everything!

On a recent "Click" programme (World Service digital news - quite fun. My son loves it!) they were talking about a new social platform for the Moslem world, which translates into whichever language the reader speaks, so that Egyptians can communicate with Malayans etc. It only mentioned this in passing, but didn't say which translator they were using.


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