![]() ![]() However, most business communications should be in honorific language, which uses a more formal form of address and diction to show respect."Īt their site, under History of Innovation, Alta Vista says, "We are proud of Babel Fish, the Web's first Internet machine translation service that can translate words, phrases or entire Web sites to and from English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Russian." We agree they have a lot to be proud of. Familiar language is what you would use when you’re speaking to close friends or family. Leporini also brings out another key aspect of machine translated text, "Another important point to keep in mind is that Babel Fish translation produces familiar, instead of honorific, translations. The machine translation for this chapter title was "The Pastor's Goat." So if a reliable translation is what you're looking for, make sure you get a human translator to polish the results of the Babel Fish translation. We once translated a book from English into Spanish where one chapter title was "The Pastor's Kid," and it talked about the child of a particular minister. This will avoid embarrassing misunderstandings. When using CCF's machine translated text in correspondence, or sending it to someone else, let them know it was produced by a machine translator called Babel Fish. When she clicked to translate the CCF site into Spanish shecould see the translation errors were there.but ould also delight in the fact that all the content present in the CCF site was in Spanish and, by reading it, visitors would certainly get the general meaning of the various articles posted to the site. Our General Manager is from Cuba and know good Spanish when she sees it. Text that contains slang, misspelled words, poorly placed punctuation, or complicated sentence structure, may not yield the most accurate results."Įven though the resulting translation is not perfect, it's a wonderful thing that Alta Vista has done by providing this service free of charge. Also, because Babel Fish is an automated translator, it works best when the text has perfect grammar. For important materials, you should consult a human translator. It is intended to help you get the general meaning of the original English text. Christopher Leporini's web review gives a good description of what Babel Fish does.Īs Leporini writes in his review, "Because translating a languages is a complex task, the resulting translation using Babel Fish is not perfect. It'll give you the general meaning of the English text. Click on one of the eight banners shown in the Babel Fish box/logo found on the article pages and you'll get a translation of the CCF site in that particular language. Using this software, visitors can produce a machine translation, into eight different languages, of the English text on our site. We've added Alta Vista's Babel Fish to the CCF site. Home | About | Subscribe | Postcards | Polls | Translate | BookSense | BookCloseouts | Blog | | Contact Us |īy staff writer, Machine translation available for the CCF stie in 8 languages! You help support the work of CCF when you purchase from vendors via the links posted on our site. ![]()
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