Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 02:55:30 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: ADDENDUM TO TRANSLATION SOFTWARE MESSAGE


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Dear Dr. Eldred,

Just a note. Many of my correspondents in relation to this issue have said that such software is impossible because of the great difference between ancient Greek and modern Western languages. This is nonsense. There are already available this moment NUMEROUS such programs covering much more distant languages as all the dialects of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Swahili, etc. Greek should be a snap compared to those. But as one company put it to me, there are just not enough people out there wanting such a program to justify the expense of developing one. I did find one that said it had ancient Greek translating abilities but 1) it cost over $500 and 2) it was with eighty other languages, so I seriously doubt it could help me much with Psellus even if I could afford it. 

Gary C. Moore



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Dear Dr. Eldred,

Just a note. Many of my correspondents in relation to this issue have said that such software is impossible because of the great difference between ancient Greek and modern Western languages. This is nonsense. There are already available this moment NUMEROUS such programs covering much more distant languages as all the dialects of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Swahili, etc. Greek should be a snap compared to those. But as one company put it to me, there are just not enough people out there wanting such a program to justify the expense of developing one. I did find one that said it had ancient Greek translating abilities but 1) it cost over $500 and 2) it was with eighty other languages, so I seriously doubt it could help me much with Psellus even if I could afford it.

Gary C. Moore