Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Google translations: Di gantse megillah

Today I went to Google's Language Tools to translate something. Normally I just use the "Translate" tool, but today my eyes wandered down to the "Use the Google Interface in Your Language" section. Wow. You can set up Google to do anything from Pig Latin to Elmer Fudd to the Swedish Chef. There are also options for legitimate but rarely spoken languages such as Latin, Esperanto, and Yiddish. Here's what the Yiddish page looks like:

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I can't vouch for its correctness, but it appears that some of the words, such as web, are borrowed from English. For instance, the text in the pale blue box reads, "Web rezultaten 1-10 fon ahn erch 472,000 fahr..." That's 472,000 hits for the word "Yiddish" spelled out in Hebrew letters. Who knew?

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