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<font size=3>By coincidence, I was just trying Google Translate
on:<br><br>
Naukeurige beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche gewesten van Egypten.<br><br>
It asked me:<br><br>
Did you mean: Naukeurige beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche gewesten van
<b><i>Egypte</i></b> <br><br>
and gave me the translation:<br><br>
Precise beschrijvinge of the African provinces of Egypten <br><br>
I learned what Naukeurige and gewesten mean, and knowing some German I
can figure out beschrijvinge and Egypten.<br><br>
Joel<br><br>
At 2/11/2012 09:50 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Feb 11, 2012, at 4:46 PM,
Joel S. Berson wrote:<br><br>
> At 2/11/2012 07:25 PM, Dan Nussbaum wrote:<br>
>> I have found some German words on Google translate that were not
in<br>
>> my 979 page German-English dictionary.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> However, I would not use it for anything longer that a
phrase.<br>
><br>
> I've used it profitably to get the general sense of a passage,<br>
> recently quite well on two long paragraphs from Buffon<br>
> (1766). However, I would not rely on it for specifics, details
(it<br>
> got some misleadingly in the Buffon passages).<br><br>
I frequently use Google Translate for helping with vocabulary and
sometimes phrases. It's accuracy continues to surprise me. On occasion,
I'll use it on a paragraph to learn what the general subject is, but
place no faith in anything longer than a collocation or phrase.<br><br>
Another nice tool is Wiktionary. Many or most entries have a hidden
translation section and you can look at the foreign language version of
the page if available as well. To complement Wiktionary and the other
Wiki projects on my iPhone, I like Fast Wiki.<br><br>
Benjamin Barrett<br>
Seattle, WA<br><br>
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