Comments on: Babel Fish Is Not A Diplomatic Tool

By: A Burger

A Burger — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:29:00 +0000

I'm sorry but your translations into English are absolutely appalling and make no sense at all. If you provide your direct e-mail address i will scan the German and French to English translations. and forward to you. You will fall off your chair!

By: Busby SEO Test

Busby SEO Test — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:55:03 +0000

I never found an accurate translation tool even close to be called half good, even Google translation tool

By: Joro

Joro — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:12:28 +0000

great post

By: Vacation Rentals

Vacation Rentals — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:17:28 +0000

Goodness me, one shouldn't laugh but… agreed the Google translator is far superior, gets my vote every time.

By: sbspalding

sbspalding — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:14:59 +0000

Wow, I was considering doing a similar experiment but you did a fantastic job. While I still would not bet my international reputation on Google's tools, those translations were extraordinarily accurate. What's really impressive is that Casablanca doesn't always use standard English syntax, which makes the task even harder.

Nice article!

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:46:39 +0000

I posted about another international incident possibly caused by poor online translators, and compared Babel Fish's performance with Google's alternative. Bottom line is: use Google's Language Tools, forget Babel Fish:
http://brentblog.typepad.com/brentblog/2007/10/...

By: sbspalding

sbspalding — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:26:45 +0000

I am sure that was amusing. Ha.

By: drt

drt — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:16:33 +0000

I think Bable Fish also used the same software that many websites' owner displayed in their sites using the flag of the countries that their websites would be able to directly translate it to. I always found it amusing. To show the point I went to a site that had both the Japanese and English version and then used Bablefish to translate the Japanese version and displayed both translated versions. No, there is no harm. You may try it at home.

By: sbspalding

sbspalding — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:00:52 +0000

If you're going be sure to use Google Translate, Babel Fish might get you in trouble.

By: MoneyMoose

MoneyMoose — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:25:25 +0000

Oh man oh man oh man.

I definitely should not be negotiating that nuclear weapons deal with Russia.