I'm glad to know this is available - I've always used Babelfish before, so it's nice to have another alternative. Besides, the url is easier to remember!
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That is so cool! I never used anything like it, but I will be playing with it now that I know it is there.
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Try translating a phrase, or even better a song lyric, into another language, then putting the translation back and have it re-translated into English. Hours of good, clean fun. (*grin*)
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Quote: Try translating a phrase, or even better a song lyric, into another language, then putting the translation back and have it re-translated into English. Hours of good, clean fun. (*grin*)
I typed in:
Quote: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Translating from English into French, then translating the French into German, then translating the German back into French and the resulting French back into English, I finished up with:
Quote: We regard these truths as for obvious in him, the these all total men let us return created immediately who that they are equipped by their creator with certain rights unalienable which under the latter life, the freedom and the continuation of the chance are.
From what I've heard of mechanical translation generally, this isn't too bad at all.
Depends on where you are - it doesn't work everywhere.
Also depends on whether you've opted to have it removed. This is one of those "invasion of privacy" issues that Google should not have done in the first place. There has been quite an uproar about their decision to add this feature, from what I understand.
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