Sounds like a browser problem as I just tried typing in a bit of Spanish to
be translated into Goggle and it worked fine.  The reason I like Dicter is
that you just highlight the text, hit control-alt, and get a pop up with the
translation that can read right then and there, or dumped onto your
clipboard if you want to paste it to a hard copy or longer document for some
reason.  It works really fast when searching through a lengthy document for
relevant text.

Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico, USA (already cooling down for the evening)

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From: "David Campbell" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 2:51 PM
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Subject:      Re: [CONCH-L] new journal

> Google translation is indeed useful for dealing with foreign texts,
> but it has some peculiarities and is generally not so good at
> technical terms.  Japanese common names for freshwater mussels come
> out somewhat strange, for example, though several of the English
> common names are strange without being questionably translated.
> Google Translate is largely based on computerized comparison of
> translated texts, and so doesn't handle some simple things very well.
> For example, it used to not recognize l' in French as le in front of a
> vowel, so the whole word would be left untranslated unless you went
> back and inserted a space between the l' and the word.
>
> At the moment, Google Translate insists on rendering anything typed
> into it into cyrillic when you type a space, so pasting things in
> rather than direct typing is necessary.
>
> --
> Dr. David Campbell
> 425 Scientific Collections
> University of Alabama
> "I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
>
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