Dear Mr. Burns,
sorry but what you get from the babelfish is definitely not German.
The words are translated more or less understandable, but you can get the sense of it only
knowing the translation word by word to English
Roland Dierken
Bay. Laserzentrum, Erlangen
Marshall Burns schrieb:
> Franck Lacan wrote:
>
> > http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?
>
> This is absolutely incredible!!! I typed in the URL of our Web site welcome page
> and only a few seconds later had a translated version in each of five languages!
>
> I wonder if any of our colleagues on this list would be willing to tell us how
> well the service works. Listed below are URLs for each of the five translations. It
> would be very interesting if native speakers of the respective languages would look at
> these and comment (to me privately or to the whole list, as you wish) on the quality
> of the translation.
>
> http://www.Ennex.com/index-French.htm
> http://www.Ennex.com/index-German.htm
> http://www.Ennex.com/index-Italian.htm
> http://www.Ennex.com/index-Portuguese.htm
> http://www.Ennex.com/index-Spanish.htm
>
> As my own test, I took the French version and had Alta Vista translate it back
> into English. The result was definitely not very good, but it did at least
> communicated the basics.
>
> One thing that was interesting was how the translator treated the word
> "fabricator." In the five languages, it came out as:
>
> French: constructeur
> German: Hersteller
> Italian: fabricator
> Portuguese: construtor
> Spanish: fabricante
>
> In the reverse process from French to English, the translator rendered "constructeur"
> as "manufacturer."
>
> --
> Marshall Burns
> Marshall@Ennex.com
>
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