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Google Translate now understands Latin
The entire post is written in Latin, so of course, you have to copy and paste it into Google Translate to read it! Once you've done that, the usual machine-translated gems await!
My favourite phrase is right at the end: Ingeniarius Programmandi, which means Senior Engineer! I might have to put that on my LinkedIn profile...
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Subscribe to commentsGalileoAceSep 30th 2010 6:59AM
HURRAH! About bloody time.
SalvatoreSep 30th 2010 9:11AM
Actually Senior Engineer is Senior Ingeniarius, Ingeniarius Programmandi is Engineer for programmation.
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My favourite sentence is "Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra" - "How long, Catiline, will you abuse our patience". Incipit of the Speech against Catilin by Cicero.
... And regards my latin teacher in high school.
SalvatoreSep 30th 2010 9:12AM
*and regards to latin teacher
ProlornOct 1st 2010 1:08AM
Great, now Latin teachers may also enjoy the pleasures of grading machine-translated student papers. Bona fortuna!
PietroOct 5th 2010 4:06PM
Fortuna doesn't exactly translates as luck, it was more intended like storm or, more in general, disaster.
About good luck, that would be res secundae.
JonOct 13th 2010 8:20AM
As you say, these "machine translations" can be useful for getting a gist of a text. But it would be dangerous to think they necessarily provide good (or even, understandable) translation. To be fair, Google admits as much.
I've had a look at some of the limitations of Google's Latin translator on my translation blog at http://www.worldaccent.com/blog and Google could be helpful for translating mottos and well known Latin phrases.
It may be free ... but one would still have to warn "caveat emptor"!