Re: Mailing list in French

It'd be nice if there was a:

    <no_translate>SQL</no_translate>

possiblity.

Ian Harding wrote:

> My favorite is "poststoneware" (postgres from Spanish to English on Babelfish)
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>>>>Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl> 08/19/03 01:24PM >>>
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> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:23:28AM -0700, Dennis Gearon wrote:
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>>I just emailed:
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>>    http://www.smartlinkcorp.com/
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>>Who power the following site (at least):
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>>    http://translation2.paralink.com/
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>
> It's nice to have, but I doubt it will be of any help in the long run.
> I did some tests and the english generated is worse than mine :-)... but
> the biggest problem is that it tries to translate the sample SQL
> statements (from spanish to english!), and the result is really weird.
> Looks like it first attempts to correct the spelling, and when running
> a spanish speller over english text the results can be very hilarating
> :-D  Translating that gives meaningless text anyway.
>
> Altavista's Babelfish has the same problems...
>