21 Apr
2005
21 Apr
'05
3:18 p.m.
Philip Pemberton <philpem at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
Speaking of which...
<http://microscopy.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html>
"VAX: When you care enough to steal the very best" :)
I have finally looked at that page with a graphical browser (no, not my
own of course, at a puter lab in school) and it's invalid Russian, obviously
written by someone who did not know the language and was merely "translating"
from English by looking up English words in a
dictionary, without any clue
as to choosing the correct meaning out of the many
possible, and then
stringing those word "translations" together as they go in English without
regard for Russian grammar rules. And one of the Russian words used there
is not a valid Russian word at all.
MS
21 Apr
21 Apr
3:30 p.m.
Michael wrote:
I have finally looked at that page with a graphical
browser (no, not my
own of course, at a puter lab in school) and it's invalid Russian,
obviously written by someone who did not know the language
And your point is?
It was done by chip designers, not translators or linguists.
Eric
4:58 p.m.
In message <0504212218.AA11705 at ivan.Harhan.ORG>, Michael Sokolov writes:
Philip Pemberton <philpem at dsl.pipex.com>
wrote:
That reminds me of a (possibly aprocryphal) story of an early
experiment in machine translation. They had both English to
Russian and Russian to English versions so decided to hook them
back to back to see what happened. Starting with the English
sentence:
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Out the other end came:
The wine is good, but the meat is spoiled.
I never did verify whether it really happened, but it makes a
great anecdote when teaching an AI class.
Brian L. Stuart
Speaking of which...
<http://microscopy.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html>
"VAX: When you care enough to steal the very best" :)
.. and it's invalid Russian, obviously
written by someone who did not know the language and was merely "translating"
from English by looking up English words in a dictionary, without any clue
as to choosing the correct meaning out of the many possible, and then
stringing those word "translations" together as they go in English without
regard for Russian grammar rules.
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