On 2/13/2012 6:59 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
Maybe John Gilmore will provide a witty retort, but you surely must know
that the number of Russian-literate people here is probably pretty low.
Babelfish did nothing but convert this text into HTML entities.

My Russian is rudimentary, so I fell back on Google Translation which
automatically recognized Russian then did a surprisingly good job on
both the body and the legal disclaimer.  A couple exceptions:

o It got "command" correct in the singular (though I would have said
  "instruction".  However, in the plural it translated it as "teams".

o It omitted "is" (which is implicit in Russian) in one instance.  However
  elsewhere it correctly supplied "are"

Overall, it did better than I'd expect of a Russophone novice ESL student.

I also relied on Google for my two word followup, but made a visual
check for sanity.

-- gil

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