On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:16:14AM +0100, Tille, Andreas wrote: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Mark Purcell wrote: > > > For those of us already using KDE, with the konqueror extensions there is > > already a babelfish icon on the task bar, it is a simple matter of hitting > > the 'German to English', 'German to French' or whatever, and konqueror will > > translate inline through babelfish. > On the other hand Babelfish is known to do a very bad job at German texts > because German has a quite complicated syntax.
Speaking as a non-German who once took lessons at the local Goethe-Institut, I found German syntax (and German grammar as a whole) to be more consistent than that of English. It's easier, for example, to identify a german Noun (see what I mean). Speaking of languages, does anybody know of any GPL'ed or DSFG-free foreign language learning tools? Maybe not a full tutorial that would cost $$ to develop, but something set in a game-like environment like a memory card game. -- Humanity's future is in the stars: support a manned mission to Mars! http://www.thinkmars.net/petition/addpetition.html
