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Subject: Re: Translators needed urgently!
To: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi)
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> Technical documents are easier to translate automatically.  There are
> some commercial softwares for automatic translation between Japanese
> and English.  But the output of these software is still too bad (far
> worth than I do :-) ), though they have huge dictionaries and use very
> complex algolithms.

I remember one such document, a C.itoh manual which stated:

"This printer should only be embraced in a ventilative environment" 

:-/

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'