[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] IMPORTANT note Re: writing in German, Russian

[Jerry Frank]

IMPORTANT clarification regarding the suggested link in this message

While the intent is to help with translation, it 
is important to understand that the suggested 
download is for a desktop applet (they call it 
desklet) service that contains many other 
features which you may or may not want on your 
computer.  You can find a fuller description 
without downloading anything at 
http://avedesk.aqua-soft.org/ .  If you do not 
want these other features, you should not 
download the software.  Other free translation 
services such as GOOGLE and Babelfish are 
available but they don't have the convenience of 
being immediately available on your desktop.



Jerry Frank - List Administrator for [Ger-Poland-Volhynia]
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At 06:47 AM 10/06/2007, Kenneth Browne wrote:
>I've noted that my list users make request for translation services in
>German, Russian, Polish, etc. I have found a tool that I believe may
>help some users, especially for German and Russian. It is a desktop
>"desklet" that translates between several languages: German, Greek,
>English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese,
>Russian, Chinese (simplified), and Chinese (traditional).
>
>The "desklet" called Translator is part of a program called Avedesk (v.
>1.3). It's "donationware" which means according to the author:
> > 0. DONATIONS
> >
> > AveDesk is not freeware, but DONATIONWARE. This means that you are not
> > free to use this application if you wish,
> > but that you should donate a small amount of money to the AveDesk
> > authors if you like AveDesk and use it frequently.
> > Donating is not enforced, it's rather a legal trick to make sure
> > no-one runs away with AveDesk for free :-).
>It can be obtained here: http://avedesk.aqua-soft.org/download.html
>The translator is just one of many desklets that you might like to use,
>but I haven't scratched the surface with most of them. I am running it
>with Window XP SP2 Home.
>
>I've done a couple of test translations of English to Spanish and French
>(languages that I know) and found the results to be quite acceptable.
>Computer translations will never be perfect, but human translations
>aren't perfect either, so this may be a useful tool for those writing
>for archival records in German and Russian, as well as the other
>languages mentioned.
>
>Here are the results of translating the following sentence from English
>to Russian and German:
> > I am writing to request assistence in locating vital records of my
> > ancestors.
>Russian: ? ???? ? assistence ??????? ? ??????? ???????????? ??????????
>???? ???????????????.
>
>German: Ich schreibe zum Antrag assistence, wenn ich lebenswichtige Sätze
>meiner Vorfahren finde.
>
>Those who know German and Russian are welcome to comment on these
>results. I know ZERO Russian and almost zero German, so I can't comment
>myself, but based on English-Spanish, and English-French, I thought it
>would be worth letting list users know about this tool.
>