Guide of BABLE FISH

Babel fish found in Humber! - Centres of Industrial Collaboration
Babel fish found in Humber! Environmental Technologies CIC.
Those familiar with “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” will know exactly what a babel fish is.
For those yet to enter author Douglas Adams’ weird and wonderful world, said fish is literally a universal translator: shove one in the human ear and it automatically translates any language in the universe into English.
By his own admission, Dr David Calvert, Commercial Manager of the University of Hull’s Environmental Technologies Centre of Industrial Collaboration (ETCIC), is something of a babel fish himself.


BABLE FISH

Babel Fish
Babel Fish The Babel fish, said the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is small, yellow and leech-like, 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..
The poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

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Translate with AltaVista
Translate with AltaVista The AltaVista Babel Fish Translation service enables you to translate pages from the Arts Commission Web site into eight languages: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish..
However, the Arts Commission cautions users to be aware that as an automatic translator, Babel Fish allows you to grasp the general intent of the original page, but will not produce a polished translation.
To translate any page on the Arts Commission site, click the fish in the lower left..

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Exploring Strange New Languages
To translate French (or Italian, or Spanish, or German and so on) into English, you might find yourself looking for a Babel Fish.
What is a Babel Fish, you ask? According to Douglas Adams, the creator of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , it is a small yellow fish that, when put in your ear, simultaneously translates any language you hear into the one you normally speak.
But as Douglas Adams wrote, ``Meanwhile, the poor Babel Fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.''.
KDE's combination web browser, file manager and Swiss Army knife, Konqueror, has hooks built in to AltaVista's Babel Fish.

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