>(however, www based translation
>services are getting better, see:
>http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?)

I think that these translations can be pretty useful for people having
very little or no knowledge of English, but they are still very far from
perfect. I had the WWW page of the raw-food list
(
http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=RAW-FOOD&H=MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
)

translated into French, and then into English again, and the result is
pretty funny. See

http://www.math.upenn.edu/~jtu/tr.html

Best wishes,

Jean-Louis
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