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Translations from French. was: Re: coutinho, aircraft sextants, HR1
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2010 Feb 18, 21:50 -0000
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2010 Feb 18, 21:50 -0000
Jim Wilson wrote- | As a matter of interest, Google offers a free translation service at: | | http://translate.google.com | | It's not perfect, but I was able to use it to get the meaning of a French | story. ================== I concur. I've used it recently to translate a recent paper in French about 18th century instruments. It produced several absurdities, of course, but knowing the subject reasonably well, and having some halting French, I found it made the translation job a lot easier. It did all the spadework, and meant that I didn't have to keep running to a dictionary all the time; just occasionally.. Google claims that it operates differently from other translators; not trying to analyse each sentence into grammatical components, but instead doing the job on a statistical basis using a large database of examples. However it works, it seems to do it pretty well. George. contact George Huxtable, at george@hux.me.uk or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222) or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.
