usually, a visit to the Babelfish website leaves me knowing what it must have been like at the Tower of Babel -- people speaking different languages and not being able to understand each other. typically, about half the words come back translated in some meaningful way; the other half are incomprehensible.

At least I have learned that "Heuer", in German, is translated as "This Year".

Thanks for the bit of cultural literacy.

Jeff

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: in the book, in order to understand people who
: speak other languages, the characters in
: this series simply put a
: "Babelfish" in their ear.

: the book was published in 1979, so the internet
: translation program name is obviuously a
: spoof/hommage of the book. not that you
: wanted, or better needed to know, but.....

: j.h.