Re: Paper Translation

["Jerry D. Harris" <jharris@dixie.edu>]

Hi All -

   Phil wrote:

> You can save some time by cutting and pasting the text at:
> http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/

    Babelfish is pretty good, but for paleo stuff, a slightly better one is 
WorldLingo at:

http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html

Click "Advanced Options" and then, from the "Subject Glossary" menu, select 
"Medicine."  This seems to catch many words that have different meaning in 
anatomy than in colloquial language (e.g., the German "Wirbel," which 
Babelfish seems to invariably translate as "eddy" is correctly translated by 
WorldLingo as "vertebra"). Haven't tried it for French, and I should also 
point out that WorldLingo seems to hang (the page, not your computer) far 
more often than Babelfish.  And even here, as Phil said, you'll have to 
translate the translation because it produces a literal readout, with few 
corrections for sentence structure or other complex nuances of language.

   You might also try Google's translator, which also seems to do a really 
nice job:

http://www.google.com/language_tools

I've been using it much more often than Babelfish, of late.  Note that, at 
the bottom of the page, you can configure Google to display it's home page 
in such "languages" as Klingon, Elmer Fudd, Hacker, Pig Latin, and "Bork, 
bork, bork!"  (Kudos if you get that last one!)

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