Not wishing to outdo the wonderfully surreal translation of Beatles lyrics I
thought I would try one of the email disclaimers appearing on this list
through an online translator and back. I'm so pleased with it I'm thinking
of adding it to all my emails. As usual the names have been deleted to
protect the innocent. Yes Jon, I have got better things to do ... I just
can't think of them at the moment.

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Newall [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: 10 October 2002 14:27
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Language translation[Scanned For Virus]


Not to ask silly questions?????  :-)))

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Rowett [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: 10 October 2002 14:25
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Language translation[Scanned For Virus]


This is *so* off topic. Go on, get back to work the lot of you.

Or...

What do these experiences tell us?


-----Original Message-----
From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
merv stapleton
Sent: 10 October 2002 14:13
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Language translation[Scanned For Virus]


It's not only translation software that comes up with gibberish. On my old
Amstrad pcw512 my name (mervyn stapleton) cae up as 'mercy stallion' when
run through the spell checker! merv stapleton e-Learning manager city of
sunderland college

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Rowett
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 10/10/02 14:12
Subject: Re: Language translation[Scanned For Virus]

Superb! And just as comprehensible as the original.

-----Original Message-----
From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Steve Crouch
Sent: 10 October 2002 12:14
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Language translation[Scanned For Virus]


By way of illustration: a friend decided to put the lyrics to "Maxwell's
Silver Hammer" into a computer programme translator - into French, then back
to English. Below is the result. 

> Joan was quizzical, the Science of studied
> pataphysical in the house harm them Late all only
> one
> with her an examination tube Oh, oh, oh, oh Maxwell
> Edison, majoring in the medicine
> Calls she on the telephone "I can take you out to
> the
> pictures Jo-o-o-oan?"  But as her prepares herself
> to
> go A blow lights the door
>
> Blow!  Blow!  Maxwell the hammer money is descended
> on
> his head Clang!  Clang!  Maxwell money hammers is to
> assure itself that she was dead
>
> The back in the school again Maxwell plays the idiot
> again Teaching receives To Wish it bothered to avoid
> and the scene e unpleasant-e-in She says to the
> Maximum to remain when classifies it left IF IT
> awaits
> behind Ecrivant fifty times "I do not must be
>
> Blow!  Blow!  Maxwell the hammer money is descended
> on
> his head Clang!  Clang!  Maxwell money hammers is to
> assure itself that she was dead
>
> The PERCENT. thirty a said one "caught us a dirty
> one
> the one" Maxwell holds the pictures of testimonial
> one
> that painting only, oh, oh, oh, oh s'Elevé itself
> and
> to scream it Valerie of the gallery Says that it
> must
> go liberates The judge does not consent, and it says
> them
>
> Blow!  Blow!  Maxwell the hammer money is descended
> on
> his head Clang!  Clang!  Maxwell money hammers is
> assured that it was dead Money hammer
>
And the chorus translated from Spanish:
 
The collision!  The collision!  The hammer of the
silver of Maxwell descended upon its Sound of head!
The sound!  The hammer of the silver of Maxwell was
affirmed that she was dead person

 
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Nigel PEET 
Sent: Thu 10/10/2002 11:40 
To: [log in to unmask] 
Cc: 
Subject: Re: Language translation[Scanned For Virus]



        Yes. Find a speaker of the other language and ask them to do it. If
you want to see how bad translation software is then re-translate it from
the other language and see what you get back in English. I tested some of
this software recently with German friends. They fell about laughing when
they read the resulting German from English.
         
        Nigel Peet
        Director of ICT
        South Cheshire College 

                -----Original Message-----
                From: David Newall [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
                Sent: 10 October 2002 11:06
                To: [log in to unmask]
                Subject: Language translation
        	
        	

                Is there a way to translate a Microsoft Word document
written in English to another language? 

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