LL-L "Careers" 2004.01.17 (07) [E]

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From: Ben J. Bloomgren <godsquad at cox.net>
Subject: LL-L "Careers" 2004.01.17 (05) [E]

One more thing: my most important translation tool these days is not a
> dictionary, but the Google search engine. That's where I hunt for websites
> in the target languages of companies who work in the relevant industry,
and
> it's very handy to take polls - you come up with an expression and then
you
> "google" it to see how many hits you get, and in what context others
> (presumably native speakers) have used the term. Google takes the
guesswork
> out of translations, for which I am eternally grateful - it saves a lot of
> money, too, because you don't need a whole lot of specialised literature
on
> every topic under the sun.
>
> Google is also where I found the rest of the song about the "vreselijke
> moord in Lisse", since it was driving me crazy that I didn't know how it
> ended... :-)
>
> Let us know how it's going, Ben.
>
> Gabriele Kahn

I checked my email last night at about midnight MST and one of the Internet
translation companies whose name I posted in my original query sent me some
material to translate from Spanish to English. It was one of those things
that would have passed me by if I had waited until now to check email. I
don't understand how Google works in this sense, as I have had bad luck
entering long-winded expressions. The first two words of the sample were an
expression that I didn't exactly know how to translate, so you would have
put it into Google to see what native speakers say? I appreciate the tips!
Ben

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