RE: computer translation

From: Frank Prengel (frankpr@web.de)
Date: Fri Jun 08 2001 - 13:09:17 MDT


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Clark
...
> Just for fun I took a passage from Engines Of Creation,
> used Babel Fish computer translation to turn it into German and then
used
> it to turn it back into English. Believe it or not it's a lot better
than it
> was 6 months ago, but its got a way to go.

I looked at the German translation of the passage you used, and found
it almost totally incomprehensible. Maybe two successive distortions
of the meaning cancel each other out :)

Frank



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