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On 2004-12-31, Tom Harrington 
<tph@pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote in 
<tph-A80D92.15353331122004@localhost>:
> In article <bhkBd.34979$wD4.18441@fe1.texas.rr.com>,
>  Gary Morrison <mr88cet@texas.net> wrote:
>
>> Do any of you have any positive or negative experience(s) with 
>> Chinese/English translation programs for the Macintosh?  I'm asking 
>> about something that can translate entire sentences.
[snip]
>
> On Mac OS X, Sherlock has a translation channel that claims to do this 
> translation.  Whether it's accurate is not something I could evaluate.

Is he looking for Mandarin or Cantonese?

In Sherlock I typed in "How much does it cost?" and it came back with 
something that I didn't have the skill to read, so I tried the more 
literal "How much money?" and instead of "duo1 shao3 qian2" (which I used 
on a daily basis when shopping in China) it produced "duo1 shao3 hou4 
bi4" which seems to be "How much currency."  For what it's worth.  I'm 
not at all good at Mandarin.  Without boring you with other examples, I 
didn't think it could interpret my meaning very well by returning the 
standard translations that were common in my textbooks.  Someone more 
learned should probably chime in here.

This isn't what you want, but it's nice anyway:
<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/9954>

-- 
Huan