-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] OT: Babelfish (was KNOPPIX) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 02:12:54 +0100 From: Wouter DeBacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: David Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Way back in the 80s, because of their need to translate many (technical) documents into lots of languages, the European Union used to heavily fund international research projects in order to develop algorithms for that purpose. They gave up many years ago. The last project they funded in that area proved that it just can't be done, not even for technical documents. It's probably documented somewhere at http://europa.eu.int, but I didn't go and search for it. ;-) On Friday 01 March 2002 22:55, you wrote: > Nick Sklav wrote: > > babelfish does a somewhat decent job at converting german to > > english. > > > > http://babelfish.altavista.com/ > > I was curious, so I tried it. What's "loop baking," something > used to mass-produce cookies ;-) ? > > I taught some Spanish classes while I was in college, and > thought I saw some lulus then, but this has got to be the > worst translation I've ever seen. It's Babelfish's > translation of http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/. > > "With the 4. Chemnitzer Linux days gives to likewise hear > it lectures on KNOPPIX. One at a riser arranged, lecture on > the current CD, and on a technically interested Linux user > arranged lecture on in KNOPPIX, transparency > (de-)komprimierende loop baking module predominantly used > (cloop)." > > -David > > ______________________________________________________________ >_______ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change > prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For > additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on > irc.openprojects.net _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
