Date:    Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:44:00 +0000
<br>From:    Duane Campbell  dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EPIX.NET 
<br>Subject: Re: Automatic translation
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<br>At 01:36 PM 2/9/98 -0500, you wrote:
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<br> It's pretty cute, but remarkably quirky. I just tried the English to French
<br> conversion (one of the few whose accuracy I can evaluate) on my own
<br> homepage and found particularly surprising the rendering of my "Fall" and
<br> "Spring" term courses as those for the "Chute" and "Spring"
<br>
<br>I did the same with German and my home page. Lots of glitches, but
<br>generally comprehensible. The name Bill was translated to Einladen.
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<br>The same thing can happen in low-tech circumstances. A German artist friend
<br>wanted us to see the "blanket" he had designed for the new conservatory. I
<br>was baffled until he showed us the Decke, the ceiling.
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<br>Duane Campbell  dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]epix.net
<br>http://www.epix.net/~dcamp/
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