From: Richard Kirke <richardkirke@h...>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 18:30:22 +0000
Subject: Re: Vehicle cammo website/Babel Fish
Allan, What is the URL for Babel Fish? Do I have to stick anything in my ear? Richard Who got scarred off by the German, but could cope with a small fish in his ear to understand it > >http://www.panzerbaer.de/colours/default.htm > some engineering > equipment) apply separate manuals." German grammar doesn't translate
From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:00:54 -0400
Subject: Re: Vehicle cammo website/Babel Fish
http://www.babelfish.com/Languages/German/GermanMachine.shtml gives a list of sites that do machine translation. The quality of machine translation is not very good, although it should be enough for you to get the general idea. If you want a good translation, you can pay about $300-400/1000 words to a professional linguistics company. Contact your nearest localization sales rep...ah, that would be me. :-) [quoted original message omitted]
From: Richard Kirke <richardkirke@h...>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 20:13:23 +0000
Subject: Re: Vehicle cammo website/Babel Fish
Chris, Thanks, you're a star, I now have a working (if slightly amusing) English website to look at... about the pro one, Nice try! Cheers
From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:46:30 -0400
Subject: Re: Vehicle cammo website/Babel Fish
Richard said: > Chris,
From: Allan Goodall <agoodall@a...>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 22:50:05 -0400
Subject: Re: Vehicle cammo website/Babel Fish
On Mon, 08 Oct 2001 20:13:23 +0000, "Richard Kirke" <richardkirke@hotmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, you're a star, I now have a working (if slightly amusing) English > website to look at... about the pro one, Nice try! Sorry I didn't reply, but I just saw your URL request! *S* Yeah, it's quite funny to read. But some of it is obviously a problem in retranslation. The US's Marine Corps was translated, from the German, as "navy Corps". You can understand why. The machine translations, while amusing, make foreign language web sites useful.
From: KH.Ranitzsch@t... (K.H.Ranitzsch)
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 07:33:54 +0200
Subject: Re: Vehicle cammo website/Babel Fish
> > Who got scarred off by the German, but could cope with a small fish "Dot" "Camouflage" "Paint Job" :-) > > > I smiled at, "The other armed services (air Force, Navy, navy The difficulty with the Marines is that in Geman "Marine" does mean Navy (as in Bundesmarine, Kriegsmarine). There is no proper German word for "Marine Soldiers" They are not part of the German military tradiiton, although the Kaiser had some "Marineinfanterie" or "Seesoldaten" (Sea Soldiers), even mounted ones - horse marines. Anyway, this leads to the occasional convoluted phrasing when German journalists discuss the Marines. On second thought, which German phrase isn't convoluted? ;-)
From: Ryan Gill <rmgill@m...>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:17:15 -0400
Subject: Re: Vehicle cammo website/Babel Fish
> At 7:33 AM +0200 10/9/01, K.H.Ranitzsch wrote: I can think of a few impolite phrases....