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LeftyNinefingers
Village Dweller
Joined: 04 Dec 2005
Posts: 20
Location: The Velvet Sea |
I'm sure all you wise and venerable masters have already discovered this for yourselves, but I just stumbled upon a post where Wulf mentions needing a way to translate a German text. If you go to http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr you can paste in whole blocks of text and instantly translate it into pretty much any language. The only problem is it does it literally, so it may still be confusing, but atleast it works. |
Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:03 am |
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Jaz
Late Night Spook
Joined: 20 Jan 2002
Posts: 9708
Location: RPGDot |
Not only does it translate sentences literally, if you have multiple meanings for one word, Babelfish tends to pick the wrong meaning. Translating sentences via Babelfish is a fun way to spend time, but it hardly ever produces correct translations... not even roughly so. It's far safer to go to http://dict.leo.org and translate word by word - LEO is the best online dictionary available, at least for German to English and vice versa.
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Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:07 am |
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Wulf
The Shepherd
Joined: 20 Sep 2003
Posts: 2312
Location: North/West.England |
I agree with Jaz (most of the time) 
Babelfish is very basic, once you move on to better translaters there's no going back.
Obviously there are also others, here's another to try, also better than Babelfish but not quite in Leo's class. http://translation2.paralink.com/
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Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:07 am |
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Maylander
High Emperor
Joined: 22 Mar 2002
Posts: 1712
Location: Norway |
I'm smarter than all of you - I just use the Germans here on the forums to translate for me when I need it, hehe.  |
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Tue Dec 13, 2005 11:26 pm |
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LeftyNinefingers
Village Dweller
Joined: 04 Dec 2005
Posts: 20
Location: The Velvet Sea |
I took three years of german in school and I can't speak it worth a damn because our teacher would make up words that didn't exist and then accuse the dictionary of being wrong. His name was Schauberger, but we called him Herr Staubsauger. |
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