Re: <nettime> The cultural bias of translating programs

[Nina Czegledy <czegledy@interlog.com>]

I am not so sure about stabilization.Translating programs might be great
for French-English or German, try Welsh or Serbian for a change! Last
summer at CFront, quoting a brief text in Bulgarian from Dimitrina
Sevova's for the Communication Front 2000 News I translated it between the
languages of the participants by a web translator. the results can be seen
on:

http://www.idea.org.uk/cfront/workshop/translations/index.html




>wade tillett wrote:
>>I was wondering how much text degrades as it is put into a translator. As
>>an experiment, I have entered this text into babelfish and had it
>>translate from french to english and from english to french until the text
>>becomes 'stable.' Let's see...
>
><....>




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