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From: Laurent Desché <>
Subject: Re: AltaVista Translator
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 16:52:11 +0000


AltaVista Translator is quite good for translation from french to
english and very poor from english to french. Aniway it's very useful
for us poor french only speaker.

Laurent Desché

Denis Beauregard a écrit :
>
> On 30 Mar 1999 20:37:56 -0800, wrote in
> soc.genealogy.french:
> Le 30 Mar 1999 20:37:56 -0800, écrivait dans
> soc.genealogy.french:
>
> >For anyone interested, I wrote a fairly simple message, translated it into
> >French using AltaVista Translator and sent it to a French speaking friend of
> >mine. Seems to be a very crude translation, he would not recommend it.
>
> If you want to use such a tool:
>
> 1- write short, simple (not complex) sentences
> 2- translate it to French and translate it back to English
> 3- repeat 1 and 2 until you get something usable
> 4- don't forget there is no guarantee this will work...
>
> Denis
>
> --
> 0 Denis Beauregard
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