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lodzins@pilot.njin.net (Dean Lodzinski) writes:

>There is such a program out, but unfortunately I forget the name.  I
>have seen the program advertised in PC Computing and in the Selective
>Software catalog.  The list price is $79.  There is also versions that
>do English to Spanish, French and Italian.

	I would expect this to be a computerized E/G dictionary.  The present
state-of-the-art machine English/German translator can only handle text
containing very simple grammatical structures and a narrow vocabulary
(scientific terms and little else).

>From your message, it sounds as if you doubt it could be done and the
>persons' question was stupid.  I surely hope that isn't the case.

	Of course it _can_ be done - if a brain can do it a machine can - but
we haven't made it work very well at all yet.

>    Dean
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