[Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 63, Issue 39

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
It would be nice if you rephrase this. I do not have a clue what you are
trying to say.
Thanks,
      GerardM

2009/6/15 Shannon Miller <shanmiller029 at yahoo.com>

> I wish to see no political limitation towards the exploitation of
> googletranslate technology to the success of wikipedia and its underwriting
> pockets; because the majority of top google hits equal wikipedia entries,
> co-existing translation technology should be obsolete as well as necessary
> for cosmo-consequential agreement.
> sMilla94070
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> > Let me disagree. Hungarian is not in the same group by far, and the
> > results make it possible to understand more than 50% of the text
> > (sometimes I'd say above 90%). While this is far from proper
> > translation it is by no means _useless_, since its obvious use is to
> > understand a completely foreign text to some extents.
> >
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> IMHO automatic translations into Polish are useless, as they only allow
> rough orientation in the contents of an article. It concerns  not only
> translations from Hungarian (in which part of the words whose Polish
> counterparts were unknown to the automatic translator were left untranslated
> or translated into English), but even translations from German. (I was
> trying articles on the children's literature ;-)
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