BABEL FISH
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Babel Fish lets CCF speak many languages
We've added Alta Vista's Babel Fish to the CCF site.
Click on one of the eight banners shown in the Babel Fish box/logo found on the article pages and you'll get a translation of the CCF site in that particular language.
As Leporini writes in his review, 'Because translating a languages is a complex task, the resulting translation using Babel Fish is not perfect.
Also, because Babel Fish is an automated translator, it works best when the text has perfect grammar.
When using CCF's machine translated text in correspondence, or sending it to someone else, let them know it was produced by a machine translator called Babel Fish.
The machine translation for this chapter title was 'The Pastor's Goat.' So if a reliable translation is what you're looking for, make sure you get a human translator to polish the results of the Babel Fish translation.
Leporini also brings out another key aspect of machine translated text, 'Another important point to keep in mind is that Babel Fish translation produces familiar, instead of honorific, translations.
However, most business communications should be in honorific language, which uses a more formal form of address and diction to show respect.' At their site, under History of Innovation , Alta Vista says, 'We are proud of Babel Fish, the Web's first Internet machine translation service that can translate words, phrases or entire Web sites to and from English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Russian.' We agree they have a lot to be proud of.
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The most popular free Web-based language translation tools are offered by Google, AltaVista Babelfish and WorldLingo .
Babel Fish Translate is available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese.
I especially appreciate your comparison of the various translation services.I originally wanted to go with AltaVista (I remember when babelfish.altavista.com came on the scene ~ and I always loved the Douglas Adams reference), but the visual style of AltaVista's translations look the worst of the bunch, in my opinion, and I ended up going with WorldLingo.
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What’s a Babel fish? at e-testers. the translation and localization company
The Babel fish is a very useful little fish: if you stick one in your ear, you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language..
This is like Douglas Adams described the Babel fish in his The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy .
“The Babel fish is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe.
The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.
The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.” .
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