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Description:
The Entente Translator works accurately between any pair of fourteen languages covering most of the Earth. Entente (ahn-TAHNT, French for "understanding") is a new kind of translator, not for documents but for conversation.
Entente is meant to help people get around in foreign countries; to converse, and ask questions, and get understandable replies. Entente is different from ordinary document translators in several ways. Most programs try to guess the meanings of ambiguous words, but Entente asks instead. (The user types I LIKE... and it beeps and asks LIKE in which sense? 1. I like candy. 2. Jim is like Jane. The user knows what he means, types a "1", and the computer makes the right translation .)
Unlike phrase translators, which cover only a few stock situations, Entente lets the user say anything he wants. The user can print the translations for informal letters, or send them as e-mail.
There are limitations -- the program will not translate foreign documents, has only a small-but-adequate 3500 word vocabulary, and relies on the intelligence of people to compensate for its minimal grammar. It uses neither plurals nor conjugations (e.g.: 3 MAN ROB BANK YESTERDAY) and listeners smile at the grammar, but grasp the meaning very well.
The program is inexpensive, and easy to learn and use -- it takes three minutes to read the rules, and five to work the practice sentences. Yet easy as it is, Entente lets almost everyone on Earth say practically anything to nearly anyone else.
Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian.
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| Publisher: | Entente Corporation | | Date Added: | 8/9/2002 | | File Size: | N/A | | File Name: | entfrn11.zip | | Version: | 1.1 | | Requirements: | N/A | | OS: | N/A | | Software Type: | N/A | | Cost: | $Shareware | | Downloads: | 48 |
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