Re: CHAT: German help
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 30, 2006, 19:51 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Williams" <feurieaux@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: CHAT: German help
> Langenscheidt's is okay, especially if you need
> something you can carry around in your pocket all day.
Oh, no... I have the huge Langenscheidt's New College Grammar Dictionary. I
can hardly lug it with one hand to my desk.
How reliable is Babelfish anyway? I tried, as some of you may have seen,
translating an English sentence into German and back into English and got
some curious results. Most of the German sentences looked "okay," but it
really takes someone truly TRULY bilingual to do this kind of exercise. I
have yet to try out any of the formal letters I've received from strict
librarians.
Sally
Niffodyr tweluenrem lis teuim an
"The gods have retractible 'arm grips.'"
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