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  Babel fish
The Babel fish is a fictional species of fish in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
A Babel fish is a highly improbable biological universal translator.
The fish's name refers to the Tower of Babel, a Biblical story, which describes events in Christian and Jewish theology which led to God confusing the languages of Man in order to prevent the Tower's construction, among other things.
www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Babel_fish.php   (488 words)

  
 Babel Fish (website) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The word Babel is a borrowed reference to the biblical account of the city of Babel and the various languages which allegedly arose there.
As for word Babel at the place where it is conveyed it is the reference where is borrowed to the Bible of the city of Babel and the various languages which happen there description.
The word Babel is presumed and from that place it is a reference which borrows in bible accounts of the city of the Babel which happens and various language.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Babel_Fish_(website)   (892 words)

  
 BABEL FISH - BIOGRAPHY - hip online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A full-fledged pop powerhouse, the Scandinavian quartet known as Babel Fish are as adept at creating subtle emotional shadows as they are at bashing out clarion rock 'n' roll.
Though Babel Fish are nothing if not modern, they have incorporated such psychedelic staples as mellotrons, Wurlitzers and Vox amps into their recordings.
As with their literary namesake, the songs and sentiments of Babel Fish are certain to translate into the world's heart.
www.hiponline.com /artist/music/b/babel_fish   (1162 words)

  
 Babel fish - Uncyclopedia
As for that name of the Babel Fish, the overhead animal which is used for the immediately translation of language in the novel of Douglas Adams is taken the guide of hitch-hiker of the galaxy.
Technology of translation for the Babel fish is offered the technical oven it is by SYSTRAN which operates the translator where Google and some other place have been attached.
== example from translation from fish from Babel and its == from straws this example [ [ the article yielding bridgebridge which is broken ] ], comes from the word of the problem, as for the expression is ' ' an italic ' ': === German Original Of ===...
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Babel_fish   (1112 words)

  
 babel fish website, babel fish website resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Babel fish is a highly improbable biological universal translator, invented by Douglas Adams, and appears in the fifth book in the series "The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
In addition to their translation abilities, Babel fish are capable of shifting sideways in probability when needed, bringing their host and sometimes other people in the vicinity, with them, a trick they had apparently learnt from the dolphins.
Babel Fish is a web-based application developed by AltaVista (now part of Yahoo!) which machine translates text or web pages from one of several languages into another.
www.babelfishh.co.uk /babelfishwebsite   (1341 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - The Babel fish
The Babel fish, is small, yellow, and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the universe.
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything that mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the nonexistence of God.
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A37766   (430 words)

  
 The Babel Fish | SYP
By these three false premises the Babel Fish Argument thus attempts a flawed argument to attempt to disproved God, and also provides more danger to Atheism that it attempts to support it.
As you can see, the Babel Fish Argument is a statement which 1) cannot damage Christianity under it’s 3 major false premises, and 2) provides damage to the Atheistic belief.
The Babel Fish Argument is a horribly flawed argument, and is best left to die on the shore for fear of misuse against it’s own creators.
scott.yang.id.au /2005/10/the-babel-fish   (1099 words)

  
 Babel Fish website Wikipedia the-REFERENCES AND RESOURCES -- LINKS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Babel Fish Translator Babel Fish Translator Results Babel fish from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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www.americaradios.com /Babel-Fish-website-Wikipedia-the.html   (227 words)

  
 Babel fish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Babel fish is a fictional species of fish in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, where it is described thus:
The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.
In a demonstration of the appeal that Hitchhiker's Guide has in the technology community, Babel Fish was the name used by one of the earliest translation sites on the World Wide Web.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Babel_fish   (523 words)

  
 Netwatch
First, if you have received an e-mail or have some other text that you want translated, simply cut and paste it into the Babel Fish website, choose the language conversion you want, and in a second or two you’ll see a passable translation.
There are a variety of translation tools on the Web that are similar to Babel Fish, such as Voila (specializing in French translation); Promt’s Online Translator, focusing on Russian; and T-Mail, which allows for Chinese, Korean and Japanese translations in addition to those offered by Babel Fish.
If you are trying to translate a language that is ob-scure or less commonly used, you may have to do some detective work on the Web to see if there is a translator for the lan-guage in question.
www.camagazine.com /index.cfm/ci_id/6850/la_id/1.htm   (538 words)

  
 G o n M a d - Babel Sheep
Inspired by Douglas Adams' Babel Fish (see h2g2), which also inspired Alta Vista's Babel Fish translation engine, and also inspired by the RinkWorks dialectizer, the Babel Sheep is the internet's first English to Cumbrian translation engine.
Babel Sheep has served more than 11571 text translations and 108806 website translations since 12th November 2005
Layout is a parody of AltaVista®'s original Babel Fish translation website.
www.topfun.co.uk /babelsheep   (115 words)

  
 BABEL: Babel Fish (1996 AD)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In 1996, under the name Daily Planet, the band released their first single, "Light of Day." The song was an big hit on Norwegian radio, however a band from Sweden had been using the Daily Planet name for some time, so the band had to seek out a new name.
Odd, who was a longtime fan of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy novels, suggested calling the group Babel Fish.
Their influences include The Beatles, Crowded House, Led Zeppelin, Simon and Garfunkel, Kate Bush, Massive Attack, and U2 - the sound of Babel Fish fuses folk's emotional resonance with a pure pop sensibility.
towerofbabel.391.org /babelfish.htm   (134 words)

  
 VH1.com : Babel Fish : Artist Main
The Norwegian pop group Babel Fish mix chamber pop arrangements with the solid songcraft of pop singer/songwriters like Michael Penn, Jason Falkner, and Owsley.
Their self-titled 1999 debut was shelved for American release by Atlantic and has not yet...
E-commerce on this website is brought to you by MTVN Direct Inc.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/babel_fish/artist.jhtml   (145 words)

  
 Related Website - Babel Fish - STAMPS about SAILS..... The Sailing ships, yachts and all that is ...  
Related Website - Babel Fish - STAMPS about SAILS.....
Two examples are: www.translate.ru and Altavista's Babel Fish.
AltaVista: Translations (Babel Fish) Quick and dirty translations of French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanis...
www.fuzzster.com /r/show/se/2999141.html   (192 words)

  
 AltaVista - Translate box for your site
With AltaVista Babel Fish, your users can translate passages of text or entire Web pages among nine languages, or they can quickly translate your page into their language of choice.
Adding Babel Fish Translation to your site is free and easy.
Babel Fish Translate is available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese.
www.altavista.com /help/free/free_searchbox_transl   (219 words)

  
 Content Area Literacy Companion Web site - Activities Chapter 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Babel Fishhttp://www.babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn is a free, automatic translation service.
Find someone who is fluent in the target language and ask that person to evaluate the quality of the translation.
Enter a Website address to see how Babel Fish can translate the Website from English into Italian, Chinese, French, or Spanish.
www.kendallhunt.com /contentarealiteracy/chapter3.html   (136 words)

  
 Website help - homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
We hope to ensure that this site can be used easily and effectively by everyone, including users with visual impairments, and other special requirements.
Every computer user is an individual – they are different sizes, shapes, heights, weights, etc. Yet the computer we may spend hours on each day is set up to meet the needs of an average person.
NB: Please note that Northamptonshire County Council is not responsible for this site and cannot vouch for the accuracy of the information it provides.
www.northamptonshire.gov.uk /help/website_help.htm?textonly=false   (276 words)

  
 Newsticker - Archive - Babelfish.org
U.S. researchers are developing a device called "Tower of Babel" that will make it possible for users to silently mouth a word in their own language and have it translated and said in another.
Translated City websites are slated to finally make sense for Chinese and Spanish readers, members of The Mayor's Cultural Competency Task Force announced yesterday.
The figure has stoked the debate on whether the EU is becoming an outrageously expensive "Tower of Babel".
www.babelfish.org /narchive.htm   (4330 words)

  
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//=========================================================================== // BABEL FISH TRANSLATION // Using the component NMHTTP1 // Nick Gessler - 3 March 2006 // // Talking to Babel Fish required several experiments with both the NMHTTP1 // component and with the protocol used at the Babel Fish website.
// Experiment Set 1: The code between the two bars of "###############" // was written to understand and text Babel Fish protocols.
However, the // TextToTranslate appears only once in the returned document, while the // TranslatedText appears twice.
www.sscnet.ucla.edu /geog/gessler/borland/babelfish.txt   (206 words)

  
 Software Similar to Attesoro
Babel Fish - Language Resource Editor by SOLYP Informatik GmbH (website in German)
Download: Babel Fish zip file containing executable jar, license, help, samples, and icon
Like Babel Fish, Zaval JRC Editor appear to be written for translators that are targeting two or more languages at once, it shows all the translations for all languages on the screen at one time.
attesoro.org /similar.html   (699 words)

  
 translation
One that is easy to use is Altavista's Babel Fish.
The translation is rough, but will give you a general idea of what's being said.
You'll see two options, one large open area to translate a few words, and a seperate box to enter a full web page address for a full page translation.
www.lisaono.homestead.com /translation.html   (380 words)

  
 Patentanwalt Axel H. Horns' Blog on Intellectual Property Law - Patent, Trade Mark & Design
The True Babel Fish: The Economist on 'Statistical Machine Translation' Software.
In 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', Douglas Adams depicted it as a 'small, yellow and leech-like' fish, called a Babel fish, that you stick in your ear.
In 'Star Trek', meanwhile, it is known simply as the Universal Language Translator.
www.ipjur.com /2006/06/true-babel-fish-economist-on.php3   (472 words)

  
 Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Weird Science - The Babel Fish
- are they washed out when you have a shower - would you like to have a fish erm....
What if you are out on a date and you nod in agreement at something your partner says - what would you say when a load of fish droppings fell onto yer chicken vinderloo?
'The Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communications between different cultures and races, has caused more and bloodier wars that anything else in the history of creation'.
www.sadgeezer.com /hhg/babel.htm   (311 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 4 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
On March 2, at Café Royal in London, our 20th Anniversary Edition of the Hitchhiker's Guide Adventure Game received an Interactive BAFTA for Online Entertainment.
Steve Meretzky explains how he and Douglas created the Hitchhiker's Adventure Game and reveals that the infamous Babel Fish puzzle was almost cut because it was considered too hard.
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites
www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/hitchhikers   (460 words)

  
 Website of the week - 8
Or, what if you need to translate a letter or email?
Simply type the language to be translated, or copy and paste it from an electronic source into Babel Fish, choose the language to translate from and to, and then hit "translate." Babel Fish will translate a number of languages, including Russian and Japanese.
Although accuracy is an issue with any of the online translators, you can at least get a sense of what something says.
www.scbar.org /pmap/Websiteoftheweek_8.asp   (186 words)

  
 Adotas » Babel Fish Gets a Makeover
announced yesterday that it has incorporated Altavista’s translating tool Babel Fish across Yahoo’s properties.
To celebrate the relaunch of Babel Fish, Flournoy suggests mixing a Babbling Fish cocktail.
The recipe can be found on the company’s blog.
www.adotas.com /2006/04/babel-fish-gets-a-makeover   (469 words)

  
 Babel Fish
The BabelFish is a fish that translates speech from one language to another.
No person translating the above would have done that.
You would love http://www.tashian.com/multibabel - a website that does this in six languages.
c2.com /cgi/wiki?BabelFish   (615 words)

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