Google also has a translation program that I have found helpful. Eva Looking for Peter Lewis (Lewes) 1700 - Lewes, Delaware ----- Original Message ---- From: Stan McConnell <stanmcc@ix.netcom.com> To: lewis@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 1:09:35 AM Subject: Re: [LEWIS] translation (Tammy) LEWIS Digest, Vol 4, Issue 112] I have similar problems with "automatic translation" programs, and rarely use them, for that reason.  The problem is that they do not translate, they transliterate - i.e., they do a word-for-word translation, which rarely renders the desired result.  The classic example from years back. (perhaps apocryphal) was "out of sight, out of mind", which, after a round trip through an English->Russian->English translation came back as "blind, insane". At 12:00 AM 4/18/2009, you wrote: >Hi Judy.. > >Babelfish is the site that I have been using and I think I may have scared >the lady off. *lol* > >If you translate words like obituary and the phrase, last will and >testament it becomes pretty confusing. I had already posted to her and >then decided to go back and translate what I had posted from German back to >English and the post is a confusing mess. > >So my advise to anyone is, if you are going to try and do this do the >initial translation and then translate it back and see what you get. > >I have found another one that seems to work better... > >http://www.translation2.paralink.com/ > >Tammy ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LEWIS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message