Babelfish - Just Amazing

Yeh, I know Babelfish has been around for sometime, but it wasn’t until I started dabbling in the area of commercial blogging did I realize its true value.  I run two other blogs, Zprava and IdeaSling, both of which have a readership that is approximately 30–40% non-US. 

I started to receive postings about IdeaSling on a couple of other sites, one was in Italian, Portugese, another Spanish, and yet another in German.  So, anyhow, you get the point.  I started to use Babelfish to translate the comments, so that I could remark, etc. Then I realized that a great deal of the traffic coming through Zprava and IdeaSling was not natively english speaking. 

It would be quite impossible for me to template and provide multiple translations, and then write code to determine originating address/location and try to determine the appropriate language for a geographical area.  Afterall, it is only me!

Now I admit Babelfish is far from perfect.  The translations are nailed, and could subject yourself to some embarrassment, since it is an automated process.  But, if people click and use the service on the website, and understand that the translation is absolutely literal, and you must do some reconfiguration in your own mind sometimes to gain the true understanding, then it works perfectly. 

Go ahead and try it out.

 

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ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Felix rapidly strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 hurricane and churned through the Caribbean Sea on a path toward Central America, where forecasters said it could make landfall as “potentially catastrophic” storm.
Felix was packing winds of up to 165 mph as it headed west, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. It was projected to skirt Honduras’ coastline on Tuesday before slamming into Belize on Wednesday.
“As it stands, we’re still thinking that it will be a potentially catastrophic system in the early portions of this week, Tuesday evening, possibly affecting Honduras and then toward the coast of Belize,” said Dave Roberts, a hurricane specialist at the center in Miami.