> >(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
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