Well put, Ronan. Your observation applies to all languages. It can be useful
as an aid but not as a reliable translation program. The same holds true for
all translation programs.
Paul
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From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ronan McGuirk
Sent: 04 May 2016 18:26
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Another Irish question
Hi again all,
You could consider using Google Translate as a dictionary to translate single
words from English to Irish or vice versa.
I don't find Google translate to be reliable for translating sentences from
English to Irish.It often works okay for short simple sentences but for a
longer sentence such as you might get in a Wikipedia article or newspaper
article , I have found that it often produces gibberish.
There are many media reports about badly garbled Irish produced from Google
Translate.
However, it seems fairly good at translating single words.
That being said, I believe www.teanglann.ie is a much better dictionary.
I find Google Translate to be accessible but not especially well-designed for a
screen reader.
For example, I don't find it easy to jump from the source text to the
translated text.
Ronan
On 28/04/2016, Joan Ann Brosnan <joanannbrosnan9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all===========================================================
I am just wondering if there is an accessible online dictionary for Irish?
And also if people know of any other useful Irish resources that are
accessible, that would be great.
Thanks
Joan Ann.
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