The mother of a grade-school friend of mine had worked at the UN as a
'simultaneous translator' for English/German. I don't know how she could do
it. Thats what they hear in those headphones, but I think its done by real
people still.
I hear voices in my head, but I can't speak and listen to the voices at the
same time. The voices keep saying "Buy it, you need one more of <insert
Olympus bit>" and I can't ignore them. I need help, is there a doctor in the
house?
I'd like to borrow some OMoney... doctors are loaded.<g>
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
on 2/16/03 11:38 PM, julian_davies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx at
julian_davies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Which reminds me of my favourite computer translation story, supposedly from
> the European Parliament, where instant translation is a big issue. They put
> "Hydraulic Ram" into the program, translated it to Italian, then French, then
> back to English, where it came out as "Water Goat".
>
> Julian
>
>> from: Chris Barker <imagopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 06:45:33
>> to: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> cc: ll.clark@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> subject: Re: [OM] Gotta love e*bay descriptions
>>
>> I think that the translation may have been carried out by a computer
>> programme ...
>>
>> Chris
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