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I'm a bit surprised-- I kind of assumed that Latin was already a supported language in Google Translate.
Google Translate adds an interesting effect if you translate something into Latin. Also, "Latin" in Latin is translated as "English"
Get the translation from here: http://translate.google.com/?sl=la&tl=en#la%7Cen
That language barriers be torn away and the knowledge of the world is made accessible and useful, translation systems of many languages of the nations were created by us. Today, we announce the first language translation system by which no native speakers now make use of: the Latin. Being but a few speak Latin daily, year by year more than a hundred thousand American students receive the National Latin Exam. Besides many people all over the world study Latin.
This Latin translation system rarely be used to translate e-mails or understand the subtitles of YouTube videos. But many that are ancient books of philosophy, of physics and of mathematics are written in Latin. But many thousands of books are in Google Books, who have whole passages in Latin.
Translating by machine from Latin is difficult and our grasp of grammar not without error. The Latin is unmatched because most of them Latin books have already been written and only a few of the new shall be hereafter. Many have been translated into other languages and these translations we use to train our translation system. Since this system translates books well similar to those from whom he learned, our ability to translate famous books (such as The Gallic War Caesar 's) is already good.
The next time you find a Latin passage or you need help with the Latin writings, try this.
Jakob Uszkoreit, Software Engineer
This Latin translation system rarely be used to translate e-mails or understand the subtitles of YouTube videos. But many that are ancient books of philosophy, of physics and of mathematics are written in Latin. But many thousands of books are in Google Books, who have whole passages in Latin.
Translating by machine from Latin is difficult and our grasp of grammar not without error. The Latin is unmatched because most of them Latin books have already been written and only a few of the new shall be hereafter. Many have been translated into other languages and these translations we use to train our translation system. Since this system translates books well similar to those from whom he learned, our ability to translate famous books (such as The Gallic War Caesar 's) is already good.
The next time you find a Latin passage or you need help with the Latin writings, try this.
Jakob Uszkoreit, Software Engineer
I believe "nuntios electronicos" translates to "electronic messenger" not "mail". Which is kind of cool though :)
Sometimes languages don't match up perfectly. That same word is used for both a message and the person who carries it.
In a context where there is no regular postal service. the distinction between a message arriving and a messenger arriving is usually moot anyway.
In a context where there is no regular postal service. the distinction between a message arriving and a messenger arriving is usually moot anyway.
Ah, neat. But latin does have a word for mail in "epistula" (and probably "littera"), and a message is not necessarily a mail.
Or maybe I'm failing english and there is no distinction between the two in this language/internet world :)
In the singular, 'littera' is a character/single letter (e.g., 'a'). Normally, Romans used the plural ('litterae' - or other forms for other cases) to mean a document of some kind.
Noli mala.