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Subject:Re: Number/Figure & Bringing up DOS From:Peter <pnewman1 -at- optonline -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 17 May 2002 13:50:07 -0400
eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com wrote:
>
<snip>
> Never, never, never attempt to round-trip translations. You'll always just end
> up confused. Equivalent words in different languages often do not share the same
> synonyms or alternate meanings.
<snip>
What you say makes sense, but one of the tests used for machine
translations is how well the round trip is made.
--
Peter
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a
minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's
longer than any hour. That's relativity,"
- Einstein-
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