gnome-translate program

[Peter Gordon]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 13:26 -0500, John wrote:
> Anyone have experience using gnome-translate? I'm in the process of 
> downloading/installing a bunch of stuff....
> 
>               John

I play around with it for fun; and while it works decently enough, it
does translate far too literally. For example, the Spanish informal
command "¡Dámelo!" ("Give it to me!") is translated as "It gives it to
me!" since the third-person formal present-tense indicative conjugation,
in this case of the verb "dar" ("to give"), is what is used as the
third-person informal present-tense imperative (command) form. 

(Okay; I'm a language nerd, sorry. :O)
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