New Translation Tool

Posted on October 16, 2004 by Michael Froomkin

You find the most incredible things online. Here's what claims to be The Internet's Most Accurate English-to-English Dictionary.

Of course in a few weeks Google will offer the same functionality, and in two years it will be built into IE SP 4.

(Now also available in other languages: Español · Deutsch · Français · Italiano · Ελληνικά · Português)

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10 Responses to New Translation Tool

  1. Barry Freed says:
    October 16, 2004 at 10:08 am

    Something must be wrong with it. They need to work the bugs out. I put in some of George W Bush’s stump speeches as well as transcripts of his answers to the questions in all three debates. And every single time I keep getting the same result: “Go fuck yourselves.”

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  3. Mojo says:
    October 17, 2004 at 4:36 am

    Barry; The instructions say to enter the phrase in English. You entered what Bush said instead. Of course it didn’t work right.

  4. Barry Freed says:
    October 17, 2004 at 6:44 am

    Good point mojo. Now, I wonder what eldritch horrors I might awaken by entering the following text: Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wagn’nagl fhtagn n-n-No d-don’t t-t-r Aaaaaaiiiiiii!!!

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  8. MM says:
    October 18, 2004 at 4:52 am

    I linked to this item, but the trackback kept timing out.

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