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Message: 3931
Author: arpinnock
Date: 06/02/2004
Subject: Re: Forget-me-not / Machine-Translation / Russian
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad
> Igor Makovsy wrote:
A
> >
> > Ok, guys, first hello. That`s me. I`m alive and healthy.
> > Everything goes fine. For those, who interested in me, my
> > interests (including Willy), my life can VISIT my absolutely new
> > web page.
> >
> > www.bwcit.tk
> > www.bwc.by.ru
> > - THE ONLY REQUIREMENT IS KNOWING RUSSIAN LANGUAGE OR
> > GOOD RUSSIAN TO ENGLISH TRANSLATOR.
I have used Worldlingo. This works. This should be the link if you
>
> Not much joy with the translators I've tried:
> * Babel Fish [ http://babelfish.altavista.com/ ]
> * PROMT [ http://www.translate.ru/eng/srvurl.asp ]
>
> Babel Fish can make something of http://www.bwc.by.ru/default.htm
> but unfortunately doesn't seem to recognise the links on the left.
>
>
> Machine-translation is a topic that I find fascinating and
> entertaining; unfortunately it still doesn't have much to show for
> all the research-grants it's been attracting since the 1950s.
>
> e.g. (1) "Press 'Y' for Yes" -> "Taper 'Y' pour Oui"
>
> e.g. (2) One English<->Russian translator apparently
> translated "hydraulic ram" to Russian, and back to English
> as "water sheep"! Round-trip translation is definitely not the way
> to evaluate the quality of a translator...
>
>
> You've just moved learning Russian a little higher up my list of
> priorities! ;-) I taught myself Slovak last year - maybe Russian in
> 2005 if I'm not too busy. I'm a fan of Iroda Tulyaganova and Maria
> Sharapova after all, and I have the advantage of my mother being a
> former teacher of Russian.
>
> --
> Dr. Andrew Broad
> http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/
> http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
> http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
want to try it.
http://www.worldlingo.com/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html
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