Re: Paper Translation

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> 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").

None finds "vortex/vertex"? :o)

> 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.

In this respect French is much more like English (and most of the rest of 
the world) than German, so don't fear. :-)