> >(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 Yes, that is pretty spotty, to say the best. People have been working on computer based translations since after to World War II; I recall that the quick-sort algorithm in computer science was developed by a group of Russians working on language translations in the 1950's. Looks like we still have quite a ways to go. I'm curious - are there any raw lists which are available in languages other than English ? Regards, David [log in to unmask]