Translation Site

[Jeremy Osner]

My favorite site for finding a quick translation for a word (German/English
only) is http://dict.leo.org/ the online dictionary maintained by Technischen
Universität München. That Lernout & Hauspie translator seems to know a bit of
idiom, maybe it would sometimes be useful for translating phrases that you can't
make sense of on a word-by-word basis.

Jeremy

Thomas Colin wrote:

>   I've just tried this weird electronic translator, hoping while I was
> writing my little test sentence (in English) that the translation (in
> French) would be ridiculously crippled, wobbly: the product of a machine
> with no true linguistic skills, no sensibility. I hate the thought that
> machines could be more intelligent than me (and do think that translation
> -as opposed to playing chess, for instance- is a really intellectual
> activity).
>   Well, fortunately enough, the result *was* crippled and made little sense.
> But not as imperfect and flawed as what I explected... so I'm still not sure
> whether I should be disturbed or not. It is indeed quite impressive.
>   Best,
> Tom.
> PS: correction. I just tried to see how this thing translated the first two
> sentences of GR. result: "Un cri rencontre le ciel par hasard. Il s'est
> passe auparavant, mais il n'y a rien pour le comparer maintenant a," which I
> can only define as dadaist concrete poetry...
> PS2: still, I understand it's very useful to find a quick translation for a
> word. Unfortunately languages are also about syntax.
>
> >From: "HMus" <scuffling at hotmail.com>
> >To: "Pynchon List" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> >Subject: Translation Site
> >Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 11:24:51 -0500
> >
> >Best I've seen on the WWW:
> >
> >http://translate.lhsl.com/lhsl/
> >
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> >Keep cool, but care.
> >
> >AsB4,
> >
> >HMus Scuff
> >
> >
>
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