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TRANSLATION TIPS
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Sample World Opinion |
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To find out what someone in another country thinks about a topic, translate your AltaVista query words into the target language (the one you want results in), do your search with the translated terms, and specify results only from the target language. Then, translate the pages that look interesting. We now have a link under the translation that will automatically create the query for you.
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Act Multi-lingual |
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Get frustrated when you can't read Usenet postings? Just keep the translation page open in a browser window, then paste the text of the Usenet posting into the window. No problem!
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Read the News |
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Translating news articles usually works quite well -- try reading the newspaper in a foreign language if you'd like.
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Talk to/Mail Friends Who Speak Different Languages |
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Write a letter in your favorite mailer, then paste chunks no larger than 1000 characters long into the translation box. Choose the language your correspondent understands. Press translate. Et voila! Copy the translation into your email. But do not forget to mention that this translation was generated by "http://babelfish.altavista.com/". We also recommend that you send the original text, so if the translation is garbled your correspondent can refer to it. Always acknowledge your sources, even if they are Alpha CPU's.
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Cheap Entertainment |
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Idioms and slang -- phrases like "the whole nine yards" or "what's up, Doc?" in American English -- are notoriously hard to translate well, particularly when the computer doesn't know the context of the phrase. Try a few for some good laughs.
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Cheap Entertainment, Part2 |
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Remember the old game Gossip -- where one person whispers something to the next person, then the second to the third, and so on, then everyone has a good laugh about what comes out at the end? Try that with translations. Just start with one languages, then translate that to another, then another, then another, then back to the original.
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