Though BabelFish are nothing if not modern, they have incorporated such psychedelic staples as mellotrons, Wurlitzers and Vox amps into their recordings.
With their unique approach towards music and their affable intra-band camaraderie, BabelFish are now poised to bring their delightfully dynamic pop music to the people.
As with their literary namesake, the songs and sentiments of BabelFish are certain to translate into the world's heart.
The Babelfish was a useful plot device for Adams, as it allowed various alien races to communicate while speaking different languages.
The fish's name refers to the Tower of Babel, a Biblical story, which describes events in Abrahamic theology which led to God confusing the languages of Man in order to prevent the Tower's construction, among other things.
The Babelfish also triggered a joke about the existence of God, since the Babelfish was put forth as a fideist example for the non-existence of a deity:
The word Babel is a borrowed reference to the biblical account of the city of Babel and the various languages which allegedly arose there.
The mythical tower of Babel was according to the Genesis a tower which the men wished to build to reach the sky.
The Pisces (the ぎ ょ る being), in 1 group of the Vertebrata, between lifetime, inhabiting mainly in underwater, the gill (the gill) breathing, there being a hand and foot, using the fin and swimming it is the taxon which it moves underwater.
The babelfish is a genetically engineered computer with audio, limited visial, and UMB radio inputs designed to look like the cute little fish of Adams yore (Adams is a mythical fabulist of Old Earth).
The babelfish is given feedback from its wearer in the form of speech.
Babels are generally used for only sound-sound communication, though they have been "hacked" for simple UWB conversations as well.
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BabelFish is designed to translate up to about 800 words or two standard, double-spaced pages (about 5K of text) at a time.
BabelFish not only translates that page, it continues to translate as you click through any links within that Web page to subsequent pages.
The BabelFish navigation stays at the top of the translated Web page so that you can easily navigate back to BabelFish, and there’s also a link at the top to view the Web page in its original language.
The BabelFish is small, yellow, and simultaneously translates from one spoken language to another.
When inserted into the ear, its nutrition processes convert sound waves into brain waves, neatly crossing the language divide between any species you should happen to meet whilst travelling in space.
Some say that the evolution of the Babelfish could not have been accidental, and hence that it proves the non-existence of God.
Yahoo's translation technology is named after the Babelfish that appeared in Douglas Adams' popular novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Once placed inside the ear canal, that tiny fish would feed off the sound waves generated by spoken words and excrete perfect translations for its host.
BabelFish initially was created by search pioneer AltaVista, which was acquired by Yahoo through the purchase of Overture in 2003.
In addition to being available on the Yahoo site, the BabelFish service is available now on Yahoo's browser toolbar through a one-button click.
BabelFish, on the other hand, is an online text translation service provided by the Web portal AltaVista that handles a wide selection of languages: English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
A Babelfish is a highly improbable biological universal translator.
When a Babelfish is inserted into the ear canal it allows the 'wearer' to 'instantly understand anything said...
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
At last convinced that BabelFish was no poet, I tested the French translator on some famous sentences.
In Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the G alaxy series, the BabelFish is an ear-canal-sized fish that performs the same function as the Universal Translator on Star Trek.
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One of the many finest figments of the late, great Douglas Adams's fantastic imagination, Babelfishes are naturally occurring biologically based gadgets.
The fish is a cert for an appearance in the upcoming movie since it’s the device that allows all races and species to understand one another — Adams’s ingenious solution to the conundrum of why the science fiction universe appears to be full of English speakers.
In the story, the main character needs to be able to understand the rest of the various inhabitants of the Galaxy, thus requiring the installation of a "BabelFish", a universal translator (a la Star Trek) that resides in your ear canal.
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The BabelFish Argument for the Non-Existence of God
The Babelfish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe.
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen it to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
Thus, BabelFish for the GS is a universal translator.
However, BabelFish allows very large and very detailed graphics, 24-bit colour, to be imported with no loss of size or resolution, a trick that SuperConvert cannot perform on its own.
Although it does its job of demonstrating the abilities of BabelFish, I'd love to see the DA rewritten as a Finder Extra, so that many files can be selected and processed at once.
If you want to send a translated text to another person or use it in correspondence, always explain that you are using an automatic translator named BabelFish and append or reference the original text.
Another important point to keep in mind is that BabelFish translation produces familiar, instead of honorific, translations.
Most claim BabelFish translations are most accurate with languages that use the Roman alphabet.
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The BabelFish Corporation provides expert translation, localization, globalization, language training and other multilingual services with the benefit of online convenience.
Our quality is ensured because we use only accredited/certified professional translators and an in-depth QA process in our work.
BabelFish also offers a full line of multilingual software solutions, including the proprietary BabelFish Technology Platform (Babel-TRACK™) which connects customers with language resources worldwide, giving them a local contact with a global reach.
