🚀 go-pugleaf

As I don't speakt French I thought I could use the Babelfish SOAP service for rough translations. If I manually call the handler for each item in the list it works, but if try to use repeat it doesn't. Why is this? I am not very good at AppleScript, but I can't see why I get different results

To try it make an empty document with some English paragraphs (empty paragraphs will not work)

Here's the script:

 
tell application "InDesign 2.0.2" 
	set myDoc to active document 
	set myParas to object reference of paragraphs of stories of myDoc

	repeat with i in myParas 
		set this_text to text contents of i 
		tell me to set the new_text to translate("en_fr", this_text) 
		set text contents of i to new_text & return 
	end repeat

end tell

-- This handler makes the SOAP request. 
on translate(direction, theText) 
	tell application "http://services.xmethods.net:80/perl/soaplite.cgi" 
		return call soap � 
			{method name:"BabelFish", method namespace uri:"urn:xmethodsBabelFish", parameters:{translationmode:direction as string, sourcedata:theText as string} � 
				, SOAPAction:"urn:xmethodsBabelFish#BabelFish"} 
	end tell 
end translate