german to english babelfish · Aussieveedubbers

amazeer · 30 Dec 2006, 11:57 am

http://automuseum.volkswagen.de
http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Is there something wrong with babelfish? I can translate the museum site from german to french but not german to english. It keeps giving me translation errors.

helbus · 30 Dec 2006, 2:41 pm

Maybe try German to French, and then from French to English. Could be interesting.

LUFTMEISTER · 30 Dec 2006, 7:57 pm

babelfish has trouble with german. the french translation is good but the german is ordinary.
those cunning germans have some words that translate badly like eg: volkswagen translate to moneypit in english:blush

Ich fahre ein Kdf ein Tag · 31 Dec 2006, 9:03 pm

DUBB61 wrote:babelfish has trouble with german. the french translation is good but the german is ordinary.
those cunning germans have some words that translate badly like eg: volkswagen translate to moneypit in english:blush

No it does not, if it is a proper name and first letter is capatilised it should leave it alone. What german dialect are you using to translate?
German is similar to English in that some words have different meanings colloquial etc.
But babelfish is crap...check you words in a German-English dictionary.
Get one, very useful!

[ Edited on December 31st, 2006 by Ich fahre ein Kdf ein Tag ]

fenrayer · 1 Jan 2007, 12:10 am

Ich fahre ein Kdf ein Tag wrote:
DUBB61 wrote:babelfish has trouble with german. the french translation is good but the german is ordinary.
those cunning germans have some words that translate badly like eg: volkswagen translate to moneypit in english:blush
No it does not, if it is a proper name and first letter is capatilised it should leave it alone. What german dialect are you using to translate?
German is similar to English in that some words have different meanings colloquial etc.
But babelfish is crap...check you words in a German-English dictionary.
Get one, very useful!

[ Edited on December 31st, 2006 by Ich fahre ein Kdf ein Tag ]

I think that was tongue in cheek :jesus

LUFTMEISTER · 1 Jan 2007, 9:10 am

they have a great sense of humor too!😂

helbus · 1 Jan 2007, 10:31 am

In Hanover they speak the puuuurist German. 😂

amazeer · 1 Jan 2007, 1:30 pm

Ich fahre ein Kdf ein Tag wrote:But babelfish is crap...check you words in a German-English dictionary. Get one, very useful!

translate a whole website word by word with a dictionary? The site would get updated before I finished.

bushed · 1 Jan 2007, 2:03 pm

what u need to know???...ask me but not too much ...am on hols like most atmo.lol

I translate for a German Publisher and they pay me 4c per letter!!!