>>> My opinion is: All the core ISDN developers are german, and are
>>> perhaps not that fluent in english. That may be the reason why
>>> they're hesistant to contact you directly; understandable, I
>>> have a mental block to overcome whenever I have to write a
>>> german email, for example.
>> I have to admit that when I need to write an email in any language
>> other than English, I usually write it in English, then ask BabelFish
>> to translate it for me and send whatever that comes up with as an
>> attachment to the original email, with a note that it was generated
>> automatically and may not be (probably isn't) 100% accurate as a
>> result.
> As a person who knows several foreing languges to some major or
> minor degree let me tell you that the Babelfish translations
> usually tend to be close to ununderstandable. In short,
> babelfish isn't worth it's DNS entry.
My experience of using Babelfish to translate into English (the only
language I'm reasonably fluent in) is that it works much better with
longer texts than shorter ones. In fact, I would say that anything
short of a dozen 80-character lines isn't worth feeding into it.
Anyway, this is off-topic here, so this will be my last comment on the
subject...
Best wishes from Riley.
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| There is something frustrating about the quality and speed of Linux |
| development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, |
| in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone |
| else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. |
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