Post by thread:[OT] The BabelFish is dead, long live the BabelFis

Tried to access Alta-Vista's BabelFish translator without success. http://www.babelfish.alta-vista.com May be a temporary death? May come back. Tried Google's equivalent. http://www.google.com/translate_t Suspiciously similar interface BUT doesn't do traditional Chinese :-( Otherwise seems good, and has better ability to copy from output window. I run two copies and translate to and fro until the result seems approximately correct. Google allows Ctrl-A highlighting of output text for back pasting while BabelFish doesn't. RM

On 9/6/05, Russell McMahon <spam_OUTapptechTakeThisOuTparadise.net.nz> wrote: > Tried to access Alta-Vista's BabelFish translator without success. > > http://www.babelfish.alta-vista.com > > May be a temporary death? > May come back. Typo? http://www.babelfish.altavista.com/ Alex

At 02:32 PM 9/7/2005 +1200, you wrote: >Tried to access Alta-Vista's BabelFish translator without success. > > http://www.babelfish.alta-vista.com > >May be a temporary death? >May come back. May be you should try: http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr ?? Best regards, Spehro Pefhany --"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" .....speffKILLspam@spam@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com ->> Inexpensive test equipment & parts http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZspeff

>>Tried to access Alta-Vista's BabelFish translator without success. > May be you should try: http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr ?? All accesses failed. The problem was, and still is, a DNS error or functional equivalent in my ISP. I've added a DNS entry to another provider and all is now well for me. Not so good for most of their other customers. Was a good opportunity to compare Google and Alta Vista translators. Lack of traditional Chinese by Google is a grave omission. The business emails I get with Chinese therein all use traditional rather than simplified Chinese. RM