As its 58th language, Latin will now be translated by Google's translation service, according to the Reuter's article Google adds Latin to machine translation service. It's Google's first attempt at a language with no native speakers. It anticipates occasional errors.
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Nice, seems like Italian -> Latin and Latin->Italian might only give a 50% error rate.
We talked about online translation services only a couple of weeks ago! There might be initial problems, but I’m confident they’ll do a good job.
I was going to mention that you’d posted about it, but didn’t remember which blog post it was in. Glad you brought it up.
Interesting indeed; for this will give Latin an accelerated boost of exposure.
I cannot wait. Latin is not yet displayed on my Google toolbar. Any suggestions as to a remedy?
>Reggie von Zugbach
Google’s translator is spot on translating the quote
“I came, I saw, I conquered”, seems good with individual words (depending on context), but seems to struggle with longer word combinations e.g. “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
- so I suspect Caesar’s quote is in the word database.
For an alpha, this is an amazing service.
Tinram – You have a point, but I don’t think it’s great.
arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris
Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit
litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto
Latin to English translation — Alpha
I sing of arms and the man, Troy ‘s who was the first from the shores of
Italy, exiled by fate, left the Trojan
the shores, a lot of having been tossed on both land and sea
Reggie von Zugbach – Try http://translate.google.com/#la|en|
Latin phrase from the English Act of Settlement 1701:
quamdiu se bene gesserint
Google translation:
as long as the last one that they will well
A more likely translation:
so long as they will have conducted themselves well
NB: gesserint is future perfect which is used in conditional clauses.
Nope–No Latin for Google. Bing has it, I think–and even that is by-guess-and-by-gosh.