What are Babel Fish?

Babel Fish is a free web tool accessible via Yahoo! This translates the admission text or website. Users can enter up to 150 words and receive a translation, or they can enter the site's address and be directed to the translated version of the site. Currently, Babel Fish has the ability to translate from or into 12 languages ​​or into 12 languages, although not all couples are available. All available languages ​​- Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish - can be translated into or from English or from English. The service founded in May 2008. Technology for Babel Fish is a system, one of the oldest companies of machine translations founded in 1968 in La Jolla, California. The systeran was originally developed to translate Russian into English for the United States Air Force during the Cold War. In 1986, the systeran was purchased by the Paris Basrodina Ed Gachot, although the company still has an office in La Jolla.

Babel Fish was named after the character in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . The character is a small yellow fish, such as a translation tool logo that can be placed in the ear to allow someone to understand any language of the universe. The character is named after the biblical story of the Babel tower, the description of the origin of world languages. Genesis 11 tells of the attempt of Babel's inhabitants to build a massive tower dedicated to the glory of man. In order to confuse his attempt, God scattered people of the city and gave each person a different language so that they could not communicate.

Babel Fish is usually translated well enough for the user to understand the essence of the translated material, but do not claim to create a perfect translation and do not deal well with idioms. Translation of the return journey in which Babel fish are used to transition from one language to another and then back to the original, often brings funny results.