I have yet to see an automatic translator that produces something even close to an acceptable result. Even for the translation of a simple-looking phrase such as "What the hell is going on here?", into Spanish, the results are a complete disappointment.
>For myself I discovered today the Babelfish Altavista online translation. The way it translates web pages is smarter of everything I've seen before.
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http://babelfish.altavista.com/>
>I noticed in my web site's log quite an increase of Http requests from this translator around 5 PM EST.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
