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To: spred who wrote (92440)	1/24/2001 6:22:55 PM
From: Claude	Respond to of 152472

OT- It did very well - it got confused with the anglicisms (remappais) and the typos (savior instead of savoir). Claude

To: spred who wrote (92440)	1/24/2001 6:50:14 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 152472

Re: traduction... ROFL! While it got the sense, those translation programs always sound like instructions that used to accompany products form Japan in the past. I recall one for a pair of headphones, it contained "No feeling tired for long time listening"! This brings up a very interesting point though - the only thing that works is to use a foreign language as a parallel, internally consistent reality, coming out with these kind of pavlovian responses in each given situation. Then it doesn't feel so strange after a while. But translating is really super hard, and the closer something is to genuine spontaneous conversation the more difficult it is, it in fact borders on the impossible. Anyone who thinks we couldn't use (lots!!) more mips on our computers hasn't considered the difficulties of spoken translation programs. Even something as simple as "I've got to get going" (Il faut que j'y aille) is translated incorrectly by babelfish!