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Old 05-26-2011, 02:03 PM   #12
tomsem
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Originally Posted by ardeegee View Post
You can get a taste of machine translation by picking one of the BBC alternate language pages:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/languages/index.shtml

and running it through Google's web site translation tool:

http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

I picked French, which is pretty darn similar to English compared to some of the other language choices, and I end up with phrases like this:

"It was on the pace of the fanfare and under the protection of the honor guard that the president has crossed the lawn of the gardens of the queen."
Hey, not bad! Better than many native speakers can put together...

BTW, just use Chrome. Translation is just a click away.
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