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Grauw
msx professional
Posts: 1006 |  Posted: August 18 2004, 11:14 |
"Damn the Dutch! I don't understand a crap of what they're saying!"
If that is your average thought whenever you see people speaking Dutch, I just noticed that nowadays Babelfish supports Dutch -> English (and vice versa) machine translation:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr
Another possibility is WorldLingo.com, but my impression was that the translation wasn't as good:
http://www.worldlingo.com/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html
I did some tests and I have to say I'm surprised how well the translations turned out. Better than the average translations from Spanish / Portuguese if you ask me...
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ro
msx guru
Posts: 2347 | Posted: August 18 2004, 11:44 |
nou, dat is mooi jongen! eh, sorry 
I've dun some trans. on www.babblefish.com which is not all that. ahwell |
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BiFi
msx guru
Posts: 3142 | Posted: August 18 2004, 11:46 |
I didn't know fish can talk. 
our human language that is...  |
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Bart
msx professional
Posts: 646 | Posted: August 18 2004, 11:55 |
"A Babel fish is a highly improbable biological universal translator. It appears as a "small, yellow and leechlike fish. When a Babel fish is inserted into the ear canal it allows the 'wearer' to "instantly understand anything said... in any form of language."
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BiFi
msx guru
Posts: 3142 | Posted: August 18 2004, 12:01 |
I should've quoted something I guess... I was referring to ro's babblefish URL.
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Latok
msx master
Posts: 1734 | Posted: August 18 2004, 12:04 |
We're turning in some kind of biblical discussion now? Babel Tower!
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ro
msx guru
Posts: 2347 | Posted: August 18 2004, 12:39 |
Any one remember Babelonia, the TV show? uuuhh 2cnt
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GuyveR800
msx guru
Posts: 3048 | Posted: August 18 2004, 12:46 |
The short version of the Babel story:
The people of Babylonia were building a tower that would reach for the heavens. This upset God, and he made all the people speak different languages. They couldn't understand eachother anymore and the build of the tower of babel was stopped.
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Jazzy
msx addict
Posts: 411 | Posted: August 18 2004, 13:06 |
Long version, please test you translator: Quote:
| In die tijd spraken alle mensen één taal. De bevolking groeide en trok in oostelijke richting. Toen ontdekte men in het land Sinear een grote vlakte, waar het goed wonen was. Veel mensen trokken daarheen en het werd een dichtbevolkt gebied. De bewoners van die vlakte waren van plan een grote stad te bouwen. In die stad moest een grote tempeltoren komen te staan, die tot in de hemel reikte. Een eeuwig monument voor de bouwers. "Op die manier krijgen we een centrale plaats voor onze mensen, zodat we niet steeds verder hoeven te zwerven", meenden zij. En zo begon de bouw van de stad. Er werden grote hoeveelheden stenen gebakken en als cement gebruikten zij asfalt.
Toen de HERE de bouw van de stad en de toren zag, zei Hij: "Kijk eens wat zij al bereiken nu ze nog maar aan het begin van hun samenwerking staan. Voor dit volk met zijn ene taal zal voortaan niets meer onmogelijk zijn! Laten Wij afdalen en hun verschillende talen geven, zodat zij elkaar niet meer begrijpen!" Op die manier verspreidde God de mensen over de hele aarde en zij stopten met de bouw van de stad. Daarom werd die stad Babel (Verwarring) genoemd. Dat was de plaats, waar de HERE verwarring onder de mensen stichtte door hun verschillende talen te geven en over de hele aarde te verspreiden.
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legacy
msx professional
Posts: 516 | Posted: August 18 2004, 14:02 |
And there wil be always confusion, as we see every day.
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Alex Ganzeveld
msx lover
Posts: 81 | Posted: August 18 2004, 14:20 |
Now. I snap there wholemeal nothing more from. I speak never Dutch upon this page, I translate always everything to the English to.
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Latok
msx master
Posts: 1734 | Posted: August 18 2004, 14:28 |
hehehehe...Actually, it's interesting huh. Why didn't God want there to be people who are unified, who can achieve things. He wanted confusion, apparently.
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Latok
msx master
Posts: 1734 | Posted: August 18 2004, 14:29 |
I should move this topic to Social talk Anyway, just see what happens, if someone can give it an MSX related twist. Else...... |
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GuyveR800
msx guru
Posts: 3048 | Posted: August 18 2004, 14:36 |
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| Actually, it's interesting huh. Why didn't God want there to be people who are unified, who can achieve things. He wanted confusion, apparently.
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The way I heard the story God was pissed off because of the arrogance of the people to want to reach to heaven (home of God).
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| Anyway, just see what happens, if someone can give it an MSX related twist. Else......
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I tried, but it seems Namco didn't port their 'Tower of Babel' (NES) game to MSX... :\ |
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Jazzy
msx addict
Posts: 411 | Posted: August 18 2004, 14:44 |
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| hehehehe...Actually, it's interesting huh. Why didn't God want there to be people who are unified, who can achieve things. He wanted confusion, apparently.
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Confusion was not his primary goal, maybe it's better to read the story in his context.
The people in those days thought they don't needed their God anymore. They wanted to show them selves how much they could achieve without God. Instead of trusting God they started trusting on their own knowledge and abilities. Heaven is the place were God lives so when they started building a tower wich would reach the heaven it was liek they said: Hi God, look at us now, we're just as powerfull and mighty as you.
In reaction God showed them that they were not mighty at all and they just had to trust him. By breaking their self created power God showed his people: just trust me, I give you everything you need.
Actually this is a kind of self repeating story, if you read the old testament you see this happening all the time.
10 God helps his people en gives them what they need. The people forget who gave them everything and start worshiping foreign gods and hurting their God. God punishes them like a wakeup call and the people turn back worshipping him. Everythings goes fine and after some years the people forget...
20 goto 10
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