Hello mse, On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:31:22 +0100 GMT (19/01/2009, 04:31 +0700 GMT), mse wrote:
>> From Freetranslations.com comes my next question: >> Würde „Mit geistige Wesen“ sind besser? Oder vielleicht „Mitschöpfungen vom >> Göttlichen“? m> Well... I'm absolutely sure there is no "Mit geistige Wesen" or "Mitschöpfungen m> vom Göttlichen" in any kind of German literature. I agree. That's because it's not German, it's German words put one after another without regard for sense or grammar. But then, writing translation software has become a science... m> What exactly do you want to say? There are native German speakers m> on the list, I'm sure we'll find a good translation. He wants to say "my fellow spirits", as he says in the mail you are replying to. But then, a spirit is a beverage with a high alcohol content, so I agree with you: What does Ben want to tell us? >> You can see that I use a "machine translation," which is, I am sure, >> not a precise or smooth translation. m> These machine translations are definitely far away from a good translation; m> do you know www.leo.org ? Basically it is a dictionary but it also contains a m> lot of set phrases. And in the forum native speakers often provide additional m> help. If machine translations were good, many human translators were out of work. -- Cheers, Thomas. My goal is to be a meterologist. But since I possess no training in meteorology, I suppose I should try stock brokerage. http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/ Message reply created with The Bat! 4.0.28.4 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 4.1.9.3 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
