Re: [HCDX] CIA monitoring article & machine translation

["Enzio Gehrig" <egg51953@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Brooker wrote:

> I have a degree in Translation, from Laurentian University
> http://www.laurentian.ca   No one took machine translation seriously when
I
> was a student in the 80s, and it still has a long way to go to get beyond
> awkward, stilted "me Tarzan you Jane" renditions.  Because of the nuances
> and subleties of languages, there will always be a need for human
> translators.
>
> Machine translation might be useful to get the gist in EE of a foreign
> language web site, but I wouldn't use it to translate a reception report.

I also have a degree in Translation (from Heidelberg University), but I
don't speak French. I use Systran to translate my French reception reports
and - guess what? My QSL success rate has increased dramatically. I suppose
that the people at the (mostly African) radio stations laugh so hard when
they read my reports that they answer them because I'm such a funny guy.

Vy 73,
Enzio Gehrig
Dénia/Spain (38.50N 00.04E)
JRC-535d/ALA-1530/Dipole

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