From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2003-07-02T07:53:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Speaking of I18N...

Hal E. Fulton wrote:

>I don't suppose anyone has implemented any
>kind of interface to babelfish? Something
>like
>
>  string2 = babelfish(string, from_lang, to_lang)
>
>by any chance?
>
>I realize the results it gives are crude.
>
>Hal
>
>--
>Hal Fulton
>hal9000@hypermetrics.com
>
>  
>
I did a screen-scraping one some time back.  It was truly a 
several-minute hack.  I put it in RAA under the "Jokes" category, but I 
don't think it works anymore (since I depended on the HTML output of 
babelfish for it to work).  I should probably either fix it or remove 
it, though I guess being under the Joke category, it's not going to have 
a huge impact on RAA's credibility. :)

I also had a method called "stupidize", which would translate text to 
and from a language, allowing it to suffer the often hilarious semantic 
distortion that you get from Babelfish.

Chad