Hi Myke,

While babelfish can be useful when trying to get an idea of what is being
said, I would highly recommend that you get an actual person to translate
your reply. Babelfish usually generates downright silly translations,
which will often convey most of the meaning, but may change things
around a bit to say smoething slighly different than what you wanted. For
example, the babelfish translation in this case made it sound like he
wanted his programmer replaced. In reality, all he was saying was that he
was having trouble with it and was waiting for your reply.

In short, Babelfish is great for trying to understand foreign web
sites,etc., but using it for business communication is probably not a
good idea. Because of your great service to the PIC community, there are
many people here on the piclist who are willing to translate things for
you at no charge, as you have seen.

Sean


On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, myke predko wrote:

> Thanx to Alan, Kevin, Vic and Mauro.
>
> I had completely forgotten about babelfish and I should have looked there
> first.
>
> I'll use it to draft my reply.
>
> Thanx again,
>
> myke
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mauro Bufarini" <mbufarini@CIUDAD.COM.AR>
> To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 12:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [OT]: Looking for a Translation
>
>
> > Myke,
> >
> > > Hi Folks,
> > >
> > > I've gotten a question about the El Cheapo and I'm wondering if anybody
> > > could translate:
> > >
> > > "Perdona que te escriba en espaqol.no se ingles.
> > > compre tu libro, el cual me parese muy bueno,
> > > pero no me trabaja "elchiapo", me da error cada ves que intento
> programar
> > > con el.
> > > esperando tu repuesta."
> > >
> >
> > The message says something like this:
> >
> >   This text is writing in Spanish because I don t speak English, sorry.
> > I bought your book, which I think is cool but "el cheapo" doesn t work
> > properly.
> > I get an error when I try to programming a PIC.
> > I m waiting for your answer
> >
> >
> >
> > Mauro
> >
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