GoogleTranslate and hockey

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/11/2012 07:25 PM, Dan Nussbaum wrote:
>I have found some German words on Google translate that were not in
>my 979 page German-English dictionary.
>
>
>However, I would not use it for anything longer that a phrase.

I've used it profitably to get the general sense of a passage,
recently quite well on two long paragraphs from Buffon
(1766).  However, I would not rely on it for specifics, details (it
got some misleadingly in the Buffon passages).

Joel

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