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The online translator tool is a JOKE
Oh la vache - I come to the jokes section and I see no jokes here. Je suis tres decu :(
Speaking of JOKE, I tried the translator tool at this site for simple English to French translation of the sentence "She wears the finest silk blouses". Can you believe the translation in French is "Elle usure les finesse soie chemisiers" Non, pas du tout. This translating engine is not sophisticated. Perhaps just good enough to translate a word, not a phrase or a sentence, if that. If anyone knows of any better tools on the Internet, please inform us. Thanks. Au revoir.
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Language pair: French; Spanish
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Re: The online translator tool is a JOKE
> Speaking of JOKE, I tried the translator
> tool at this site for simple English to
> French translation [...] This translating
> engine is not sophisticated. Perhaps just
> good enough to translate a word, not a
> phrase or a sentence, if that.
Perhaps it is not meant to be any better.
It can extract some ideas from a foreign
text, but it is not expected to really
translate it. For that purpose it is better
that we just keep asking each other to
help and teach. :-)
There are better translating engines, but
they are large, expensive, and in many
cases still experimental. Considering
that the common online translators do
their job at minimal processing time and
with no extra costs to the users they
succeed much better than I expected.
It is just too early to expect them to
equal the human brain.
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Re:Re: The online translator tool is a JOKE
Look up word reference at google, I use this online dictionary, when I need help with words. They have:
English-French/French-English
Spanish-English/English-Spanish
Italian-English/English-Italian
Spanish-French/French-Spanish
Spanish-Portuguese/Portuguese-Spanish
English Definitions
Spanish Definitions/Synonyms
There might be more than this, I'm not sure. Its Free to use too!
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