simple language translator

[alan and sue]

Hi All,looking forward to the meet in Stratford. Have just come across this language translator at www.babelfish.altavista.com/.

 

[Deleted member 2636]

Hi All,looking forward to the meet in Stratford. Have just come across this language translator at www.babelfish.altavista.com/.

Bon Grand Merveilleux

Gutes Großes Wundervolles

Goede Grote Prachtig

Καλός μεγάλος θαυμάσιος

 

[kell]

Hi All,looking forward to the meet in Stratford. Have just come across this language translator at www.babelfish.altavista.com/.

Looks useful.
The 'shouting in English with added hand gestures' technique seems to be a little outdated theses days.

 

[Belgian]

Babel

Have a laugh
Translate "ommelette aux fines herbes" from French into Dutch and then from Dutch into English. I would not like that on my plate.

 

[alan and sue]

Hi Belgian, you are either a master of languages or have far to much time on your hands.

 

[Deleted member 207]

I lashed out on a "ten talks" translator last year - the Koreans need to use their own translator to have a "ten languages" translator.

It had some interesting sentences in the "human relations" section - "I want to be your slave" and "Do you want to be my slave?" would be really useful whilst having a chat with an irate traffic cop in the middle of Spain!!!

As for Babelfish, it worked far better in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy than it does on the internet, but having a fish stuck in your ear is not a good look either!!

 

[Belgian]

less Babel more fish

Hi Belgian, you are either a master of languages or have far to much time on your hands.

Hi Allan & Sue,
I knew this site for years. It's just fun how it translates 'litterary'. Just give me the old dictionary when I miss a word. Babel-fish may help but it is the 'fish' which makes me grinn . I prefer and ommelette aux fines herbes in France more than one with fine grass in Britain
Maybe as belgian I'm a little previlaged with languages. It will not allways sound like a bell, but I try to manage.
Keep laughing guys !

 

[Deleted member 2636]

Have a laugh
Translate "ommelette aux fines herbes" from French into Dutch and then from Dutch into English. I would not like that on my plate.

I just got the following:
Error decoding translated text.
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As you say, I would be very disappointed if that turned up my plate

Babelfish has been around for a long time. Don't trust it too much because some of its translations could provoke an international incident

 

[alan and sue]

SIMPLE language translator

Please note the word simple in the heading

any spelling mistakes are intentional and nott because i missed skool alot

 

[Belgian]

simple is simple

Please note the word simple in the heading

any spelling mistakes are intentional and nott because i missed skool alot

Comes in handy for simple minds like me

 

[t&s]

try google

google have a translator i use it regularly for letters but as you have experienced not all languages translate exactly .
the comical ones we find are the Recipes or ingredients the wife wants to understand on foreign produce purchaced from somewhere like lidl
you end up with soup that should be a piza