Re: Japanese -> Englisch Website Translation?

"Anni Kace" wrote ...
> James Annan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writtelte:
> 
> > http://www.infoseek.co.jp/Honyaku
> 
> This one is great! 

Hmm, in comparision to Altavista anyway which completely ****s it up
on webpage setting.

> Check it out:

>From randomme starting sentence
●5円〜★バッテリーが上がっても大丈夫！JUMP　STARTER★
we have 
Altavista : - 5 Yen? * The battery rising, all right! JUMP STARTER *
Infoseek :- - OK, even if a 5 yen ?* battery goes up! JUMP STARTER*

Of course the battery is neither rising, nor going up.

Infoseek's impressive leap to "OK, even if a 5 yen" is interesting, but also wrong.

I don't think any regulars will be trembling in fear of losing their translation jobs
yet.   However I'm giving bonus points to both for translating ★ to *.  I can 
only
look forward to the day when advanced computer technology will be able to 
translate ^_^'s to :-)'s automatically.

;-)