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Posted By: ThinkGood Free Spell Check and Translators Online - 07/15/03 03:14 PM
http://www.spellcheck.net/

Lots of text-manipulation tools as well. However, it didn't do well with British spelling (-ise, -our, etc.)...

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/

Translate English into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portugese, or Spanish. Also translates the other direction.

翻译英语到汉语。
Traduisez anglais-français.
Übersetzen Sie Englisch zum Deutschen.
Traduca l'inglese ad italiano.
英語から日本語を翻訳しなさい。
한국인에게 영어를 번역하십시요.
Traduza o inglês a Portugese.
Traduzca el inglés al español.
Posted By: Trumpy Re: Free Spell Check and Translators Online - 07/19/03 08:34 AM
ThinkGood,
This could be really handy, does it do Dutch?. [Linked Image]
Here ya go [Linked Image]
http://www.worldlingo.com/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html
Posted By: Trumpy Re: Free Spell Check and Translators Online - 07/25/03 06:40 AM
ThinkGood,
Thanks for that,
I tried to learn Dutch last year, but try as I did, I couldn't get my tongue around some of the words.
Us Kiwi guys, don't tend to take on other languages too well, mainly because, we want to be able to speak it NOW, without learning the small nuances of the language, this can make for a really shocking interpretation of any language!!. [Linked Image]
This whole translation thing reminds me of an episode from I Love Lucy. I don't remember the exact details, but I think they were in France and somebody was arrested. They needed somebody who spoke English, but there wasn't anybody, so they found somebody who spoke French and Spanish, and so the translations went from French to Spanish to English. Some of the meanings were lost in the double translation...
Posted By: pauluk Re: Free Spell Check and Translators Online - 07/30/03 12:45 AM
I found the episodes where they were visiting London quite amusing. Fred gave Ethel ten pounds to spend, then nearly feinted when he learned how much that was in American money.

Then somebody tried to explain to Lucy that there were 12 pence to a shilling, 20 shillings to a pound, and that a shilling was worth so many cents.

"No wonder the pilgrims left for America!"

Wonderful line! Ay, ay, ay...... [Linked Image]
Paul:

I wonder how many times a joke went over my head because I never was able to follow the British money system years ago.

I still say that Fawlty Towers was the best.
Posted By: Nick Re: Free Spell Check and Translators Online - 08/08/03 02:15 AM
This one is really cool! It adds a button to your Internet Explode, I mean Internet explorer tool bar. Works just like a word processor spell check.

http://www.iespell.com/
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