Babel Fish

Babel Fish

Babel vs. the PC
Imagine a time when mankind was young. Migration led many to the land of Shinar. It was during that time, that man came together and decided to build not only a city but a tower that would reach the heavens. Seeing the structure, the Lord was not very pleased. In fact, He knew what trouble this could lead to, so He confused mankind with different languages and scattered them across the face of the earth. Thus, is the story of Babel. (Babylon, the Read More...
Translation Plez!
While we are here sending messages in English, there are at least one third of the worlds population who can't read them, for English is not even a second language for them. I refer to China. More people in China are logging on to the net every day, but most of what has been put up on the net is in English, this can be very frustrating for them. Very few web sites I visit, and I visit very many in any given week, don't have any way of giving t Read More...
Online Translators Can Hurt More Than Help
Online automated translators may be fairly accurate for translating languages of similar origin, but the line stops there. Certainly most of you are familiar with online translators such as Babel fish. 　However, from what I have read, it seems that quite a few people think that these automated translators do the perfect job. 　In some cases this is almost true... Languages of similar origin usually follow the same sentence Read More...

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