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#154532 - Thu Jan 23 2003 05:54 PM Did you know Google could do this?
Linda1 Offline
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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!

http://www.google.com/language_tools

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#154533 - Thu Jan 23 2003 06:39 PM Re: Did you know Google could do this?
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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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#154534 - Thu Jan 23 2003 08:26 PM Re: Did you know Google could do this?
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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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#154535 - Thu Jan 23 2003 10:07 PM Re: Did you know Google could do this?
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Has anyone noticed that it also translates Pig Latin?
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#154536 - Sun Jan 26 2003 04:13 PM Re: Did you know Google could do this?
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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.

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#154537 - Tue Jun 03 2003 01:21 PM Re: Did you know Google could do this?
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I can understand it now!!!!!! It doesn't work with Japanese ~_~

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#154538 - Tue Jun 03 2003 02:04 PM Re: Did you know Google could do this?
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Thanks Linda - added to favourites - a better first hit than language dictionary search, then search the dictionary.
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#154539 - Thu Jun 05 2003 12:56 PM Re: Did you know Google could do this?
Shrinamon218 Offline
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Cool! Did you also know that you could type in someone's phone number and it'll tell you where they live?

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#154540 - Thu Jun 05 2003 01:02 PM Re: Did you know Google could do this?
Lanni Offline
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I've tried that with a friend's and my own number and it didn't work.

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#154541 - Thu Jun 05 2003 01:05 PM Re: Did you know Google could do this?
Linda1 Offline
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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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