One of the most anticipated applications of computers has been automated translation. If computers could translate any language to another we would have better communication. Better communication means less misunderstandings, less misunderstandings means less conflicts. So since the old days of computing people have tried to implement the ultimate translator. There are many handheld devices that are capable of translating from and to a limited number of languages. In the current web age we use translators to translate foreign sites to one of the languages we are fluent in. Examples are Yahoo’s Babelfish and more recently Google’s Translate. Now some countries have multiple languages. If you only know one of the languages used you can use machine translation to provide all translations. Sometimes this goes horribly wrong, check the wonderful pictures that illustrate the article.

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