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Eric Marsden <emarsden@mail.dotcom.fr> writes:

> The new version is able to use three backends: Babelfish at
> Altavista, Systran directly from their web site, and InterTrans
> (translate to and from any of 25 languages!). Go wild.

Err... Friendly warning: InterTran looks interesting at a first sight,
but its results are *awful*. Or at least they were when I last
checked, about a month ago -- almost every translation between
English, German and Croatian was unusable.

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