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Bablefish, no 2

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Thursday, June 9, 2005, 16:33
Hi!

Another thing Bablefish translated well was

   'Speed up loading'

from one of my old pages.  In French, it reads:

   'Sa fait pipi vers le haut du chargement.'

Why?  I had to investigate, of course.  Because the 'S' in 'Speed' was
typeset in a different font on the web-page, so it parsed

   '<font ...>S</font>peed up loading'.

The 'Sa' in the translating is then typeset in the same way:

   '<font ...S></font>a fait ...'

So there's no space.  Gorgeous, isn't it! :-)

In German, it becomes:

    'Spinkelte herauf Laden'

:-)

Bye,
  Henrik

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