just to beat this dead horse a little further -- I just did a search in the HoF archives for any discussions on this before I joined these lists, and the one additional mention, http://www.systranbox.com/systran/box, produces the same result. (Maybe this is where Google gets its technology?) Anyway, "to die" is still translated as "matrix" for some bizarre reason, and "say" as "word" -- Grumble. I may have to start a fund raising drive just for this. I am pretty sure the email I was answering was English out of one of these services... meaning my answer probably looks a lot like that to her. Unless the translation to Spanish is a lot better than the translation to French.
Dana On Fri, 30 May 2003 20:16:12 -0600, Dana Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe this has come up several times on cf-talk, and the consensus is > always a that a human translator is best. While I do agree with this I do > not have a budget for translation at the moment, nor do I have any truly > bilingual volunteers. Given enough time I can probably handle French > myself but most of our email seems to come from Latin America. The > current plan is to set up a link to Google's language tools, but I am > really not happy with it. AltaVista's tools seem no better. Does anyone > on this list know of a better tool out there? > > Dana > > PS - to demonstrate the scope of the problem, I am pasting below the text > of an actual email, translated on Google. > > First of all, I am very sorry about your baby. Sometimes these children > > matrix despite everything what can be made for them, and we do not know > why. > > the cause of the syndrome of prune belly is currently not very > clear. The majority of word of doctors > it are not genetic. We however > know the families which had more one > child of prune belly. However the > severity of the disease considerably also changes; > thus a second force > of child of prune belly spout out completely. There are others familes > > which thus have only one child with the prune belly it can be another > factor. > > I myself AM not a medical professional; I am a person of > sequence which had a friend > with this disease. I ccing a couple of the > professionals who can be able in measurement > amplify on my answers. I > would strongly suggest looking at all on > the Web site of > www.prunebelly.org, including the articles of newspaper, approximately > > us page and the forum of support, with which is very actively read by > patients >> prune belly and parents of the children with the prune belly which made > and not > to survive. I believe that it is the best collection of > information on the belly > the prune syndrome outside there. > > your > English seems very good but if the language is an exit I will test > > lucky find a Spanish speaker to help you. We want to translate the > website > into other languages, but we are all mostly the volunteers as > this proceeds rather > slowly. > > to answer your questions specifically > -- I do not think that there are genetics > or any other test which can > be carried out before you became pregnant. The belly > the syndrome of > prune can be diagnosed in the uterus -- and treated --. the treatment not > > success of guarantee but a diagnosis of syndrome of prune belly is not > a death > a sentence. Look at www.prunebelly.org/AboutUs.html. To put > abruptly, if > you have another child with the syndrome of prune belly it > can only have very soft > symptoms or he can also die, and we do not know > up to now what causes it or > why some kids are so much sicker than > others. If the lives of child it is > probably to need surgery, probably > several consulting-rooms, but if it saw to be > approximately two it will > probably have a happy and reasonably healthy life. It > seems extremely > not very probable that something which this baby with > matrix caused > you. > > hope of I which I answered your questions. Smell you please > free to write behind > so more occur with you. > > The original text: > > First of all, I am very sorry about your baby. Sometimes these children > do >> die in spite of all that can be done for them, and we do not know why. >> � >> The cause of prune belly syndrome is unclear at this time. Most doctors > say >> it is not genetic. We do however know families who have had more than >> one >> prune belly child. However the severity of the illness varies widely >> also; >> so a second prune belly child might do quite well. There are other >> familes >> who have only one child with prune belly so it may be some other factor. >> � >> I myself am not a medical professional; I am a web person who had a >> friend >> with this illness. I am ccing a couple of professionals who may be able >> to >> amplify on my answers. I would strongly suggest looking at everything on >> the www.prunebelly.org web site, including the journal articles, the >> About >> Us page and the support forum, which is very actively read by patients > with >> prune belly and parents of children with prune belly who did and did not >> survive. I believe it is the best collection of information on prune >> belly >> syndrome out there. >> � >> Your English seems very good but if language is an issue I will attempt >> to >> find a Spanish speaker to help you. We do want to translate the website >> into other languages, but we are mostly all volunteers so this proceeds >> rather >> slowly. >> � >> To answer your questions specifically -- I do not think there is a >> genetic >> or other test that can be done before you become pregnant. Prune belly >> syndrome can be diagnosed -- and treated -- in utero. Treatment does not >> guarantee success but a diagnosis of prune belly syndrome is not a death >> sentence. Look at www.prunebelly.org/AboutUs.html. To put it bluntly, if >> you have another child with prune belly syndrome it may have only very > mild >> symptoms or it may also die, and we do not as yet know what causes it or >> why some kids are so much sicker than others. If the child lives it is >> likely to need surgery, possibly several surgeries, but if it lives to >> be >> about two it will probably have a happy and reasonably healthy life. It >> does seem extremely unlikely that something you did caused this baby to >> die. >> � >> I hope that I have answered your questions. Please feel free to write >> back >> if more occur to you. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
