How to communicate with foreign comrades

[resisting arrest with violence]

This topic speaks its own importance--- to contruct a bridge between the borders set up by the parasite state. Easy to use.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/


http://www.omniglot.com/links/translation.htm

[Camarada]

As someone with experience in languages, I will tell you that in communication Babelfish is practically useless.

The real purpose of Babelfish is to give you the gist of a site in another language.


While the methods used for translation are very advanced, the system is not designed to produce a "genuine" translation, but to allow a reader to gain the gist of a page or text. Translations often sound unusual or even incomprehensible, and a number of online services have been implemented that use the Babel Fish service to translate back and forth between one or more languages, often with humorous or strange results - called a "round-trip" translation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_Fish_(website)

[Che1990]

Originally posted by [email protected] 14 2005, 11:55 PM
As someone with experience in languages, I will tell you that in communication Babelfish is practically useless.

The real purpose of Babelfish is to give you the gist of a site in another language.


While the methods used for translation are very advanced, the system is not designed to produce a "genuine" translation, but to allow a reader to gain the gist of a page or text. Translations often sound unusual or even incomprehensible, and a number of online services have been implemented that use the Babel Fish service to translate back and forth between one or more languages, often with humorous or strange results - called a "round-trip" translation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_Fish_(website)
So foreign people will get the 'gist' of what we are saying (maybe).

[Felicia]

I have to agree, those things aren't that great.

Although I use babelfish to translate a word into another language if I can't remember it or don't know it, but I wouldn't use it to translate sentences for the purpose of using that translation in conversation.

[resisting arrest with violence]

Hmmmm.

Maybe you guys can't write fluently in English to begin with and so therefore the translation is an awful rendering of your message. Or maybe you are using slang like ebonics or jive or spanglish or vernacular nonesense. Or maybe you can't write at all and are illiterate.

[OleMarxco]

I admittingly used Babel-fish to create the letters that now form my title and profile ;)